That is correct. I'm from the Netherlands but I now live in Australia. Here in Sydney they seem to find it best practice to construct the pavement out of concrete. Every time work needs to be done on pipes they bring out "the heavy machinery" and you get two days of drilling and dust. When they're done, they patch up the hole with tarmac!

Sometimes however, you do see pavements that are made out tiled bricks which seemingly could be lifted up. But don't be fooled. These bricks are cemented in as well as is of course demonstrated by the patches of .... tarmac.