There's a lot of fiction in these games in order to make them fun. If you had to deal with committees, contractors, NIMBYs, and real human cost of bulldozing h

There's a lot of fiction in these games in order to make them fun. If you had to deal with committees, contractors, NIMBYs, and real human cost of bulldozing houses for highways, it would have been a completely different game, likely a sad and frustrating one. City builders also start from an empty free land, even though true greenfield development is very rare. SimCity has famously ignored the problem of parking, because it made cities look depressingly ugly. Even in Cities Skylines people pull cars out of their pockets.