I'm not from the US and barely familiar with how properties are taxed, but would it be fair to guess that the range of road maintenance costs across the country

I'm not from the US and barely familiar with how properties are taxed, but would it be fair to guess that the range of road maintenance costs across the country are narrower than the range of housing prices? Labour would vary, but materials less so, right? So if suburban maintenance is funded by property taxes and people resist a certain level of taxation, then some level of increased density is the only alternative? Someone wanting small-town rural living would need to accept some adjusted balance of poorer roads, higher taxes or increased density?