Think of the environment that communities will have to exist with in
the not so far off time.
Energy will have high cost and be relatively scarce.
Globalisation will gradually fade away.
Everything, manufacturing, food production, education etc will become local.

Small towns are the way of the future, large cities will decline.
Transport will be electrified with light rail locally and heavy rail
for longer distances.
In that sort of civilisation Springfield looks very much like the future.
If as someone said there is no rail connection, then someone has not
looked into the future. I notice in the picture there is a motorway,
well fine, it will make a fine permway for a railway.