Kelly is actually from Chicago. Her mother was a Chicago beauty pageant very early on, and then she met her mother, a wealthy local businessman in Chicago.
And then there was her! She had been living in Chicago since she was a kid!
It's just that things are changing too fast.
She moved into a small town with her family a long time ago. As we all know, in this magical land of America, the richer the rich, the more they have to move out of the city. In fact, in the early days of the West, just like China, the rich lived in cities.
In urban areas, the poor live in the suburbs. However, with the development of urbanization, urban areas can no longer meet the living requirements of the rich. On the one hand, the high welfare in Europe and the United States has caused many people to not work, and even spawned some homeless people, resulting in
The urban environment is poor, public security is chaotic, and the crime rate is high.
On the other hand, after years of urban development, many supporting facilities have become obsolete. For example, the subway in urban areas in the United States is very dirty and messy, and rich people basically do not take it. In addition, there are many homeless gathering places in urban areas. Rich people are here
Urban areas cannot get their ideal society and humanities, and they don’t want their next generation to live in this kind of environment. Therefore, wealthy areas are slowly being built in the suburbs.
.Different from rural areas and small counties in China, "suburbs" in the United States usually refer to satellite cities around metropolitan areas. They usually have a small population of 30,000 to 50,000 people. They are a certain distance from the urban area and are quiet and safe.
The environment is good, there are no people waiting around, the house covers a large area, has good privacy, the infrastructure is newer than in the city center, and the quality of the residents is similar...
We have to admit that the rich do have more choices than the poor. They can choose a better living environment for themselves. American suburbs have better environmental facilities than urban areas. At the same time, the environment, school districts, medical care,
Safety and other factors are better than life in the city center, so of course it becomes a better choice for the rich.
Of course, what is more important is the hollowing out of cities.
Hollowing out refers to the decline and population outflow of the city's central business district. The population in the city's central area decreases, commercial activities weaken, and the vacancy rate of buildings increases, forming a phenomenon of urban hollowing while the development of surrounding areas is slow. Hollowing out
This phenomenon is very common in the United States, especially
In industrial cities and agricultural areas, it is even more prominent in some old industrial cities. According to the U.S. Bureau of Land and Planning data, since 2000, the population of urban central areas in 39 of the 50 states in the United States has declined, and the United States has become hollow.
The number of cities increased by 27%.
The West Side of Chicago also suffers from the same problem, with the vacancy rate in the area reaching more than 25%. These vacant properties not only waste resources, but may also lead to increased urban crime rates, reduced social mobility, and reduced fiscal revenue. This has caused the United States to
There are many reasons for urban hollowing, one of the important reasons is the changes in the city's industrial structure and economic model. With the relocation of manufacturing and the popularization of automation technology, traditional manufacturing and heavy industry are no longer the main industries in the city.
Economic sources, service industry and information technology
The technology industry has become a new economic growth point, leading to changes in the city's industrial structure and occupational structure, a reduction in urban employment opportunities, and population loss. In addition, the trend of urban expansion and suburbanization has led to a decline in population and commercial activities in urban central areas.
Migration outwards, while the infrastructure in the city center is aging. The maintenance and renewal of streets, parks, buildings, etc. also require huge investment. Some city governments are unable to bear these expenses due to financial difficulties, which has also caused poverty in the city center.
ization and increasing social inequality.
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States. It is located in the southern part of Lake Michigan among the five Great Lakes. It is an important economic and industrial center in North America. Because it is located in the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, the earliest industrial area in the United States, Chicago's industrial modernization started very early.
It is responsible for a large part of the economic trading activities in the United States. With the settlement of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago has become the second largest economic center in the Eastern United States.
Today's Chicago is often compared to one side of heaven and one side of hell. In the north of the city, a typical wealthy area has been built around the central business district. It is a gathering place for white people and has all the city's landmarks and skyscrapers.
The level of infrastructure construction, culture and education, and municipal management are all very high.
In contrast, only public housing, motels and gangs remain in the south and west of the city where black people gather. Children in the white area are born in spacious apartments and enjoy a good education. Children in the black area huddle in shabby apartments.
In the public housing, all I could hear were the stories of those all-powerful gangsters.
All in all, Kelly moved to a small town near Chicago with her parents a long time ago.
Then her father died and her mother inherited a huge family fortune.
Then she met Kay. Kay had an affair with her mother, and then she had an affair with her... Although Kelly was very unhappy about this, it was still okay. Her father had died long ago, and her mother was a typical American sweet girl.
, causing Kelly to be very open in some aspects.
Moreover, her mother later found a rich old man to marry, but there was no real drama.
Speaking of this, Kelly also admires her mother. This woman seems to have special powers. In fact, her business level is quite satisfactory. Although her personal style is very open, her investment style is very conservative. She is the kind of person who cannot make a lot of money and is not
A person who will lose a lot of money.
But unfortunately, she can always catch Kaizi!
Logically speaking, a beautiful and wealthy widow like her is the favorite of pretty boys, but Kelly's mother doesn't like pretty boys, she likes rich old men.
So by falling in love with a rich old man, her assets continued to increase.
Now Kelly's stepfather has gone even further. He has modified his will and left all his property to her mother.
And Kelly's mother has not only been married twice... In fact, she has been married at least six times, three of which she got all the property, and the other three also got a lot of property, plus there are also relationships without marriage.
More than a dozen times.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This allows Kelly’s mother, a woman who barely graduated from high school, to increase her assets at least five times in just ten years.
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In the past, Kelly had doubted whether her mother was the kind of liar who specialized in marrying, killing, and defrauding property. She felt that her father might have been harmed by her mother.
Really, Kelly had doubted it for a long time.
Later, when I met Kai, I found out...that was not the case at all. Her mother was just a bit perverted and liked that kind of old man...of course he had to be rich. The bad relationship with Kai was purely accidental, after all, the old man
Don’t you use your muscles and bones as your energy?
That's too far.
Talking back to Kelly, Kelly has always regarded Chicago as her hometown. She saw the city she loved become like this, and naturally she also had the idea of changing Chicago deep in her heart... Well, actually it was when she watched Legally Blonde
, thought the heroine in it was cool, and she also wanted to be majestic. But it wasn’t until she went to school that she realized...she thought too much. She didn’t have the brains to take the lawyer exam. Her mother was indeed rich, but she was old.
My mother's main theme is "useless reading".
After all, her mother is also a high school graduate... and she is the kind of person who was educated happily in a public high school. How can she become a super rich person?
As a girl, why do you study so much? If you dress up beautifully, you will naturally make money! So she is not willing to donate a teaching building to her and let her enter the school through the back door. In her opinion, Kelly is not that smart at all.
You can’t learn anything by studying, so why not spend your money and study? What kind of book should you read?
So she had no choice but to study art. According to her mother’s opinion, studying art would make you more attractive!
But later, didn't she accidentally awaken her bloodline?
Then became the Chicago Trio.
All of a sudden, her desire to change Chicago was fulfilled.
But soon, she discovered that this was of no use.
She, Diana and Catherine, the three of them were fighting crime everywhere in Chicago, punishing evil and promoting good, but with little success.
How should people behave?
Last time, the three of them teamed up to overthrow the Daley family. This should be able to change the corruption and incompetence of the Chicago government, right?
Useless!
If Kai hadn't come forward to help them solve the trouble, they might not have been able to stay in Chicago... Never underestimate the capabilities of the government and the rich... The media can portray the three of them as superheroes, and they can also backhand them.
They become super criminals.
To put it bluntly, public opinion is in the hands of others.
In fact, Chicago's problems are very complicated. Let alone the three of them, even the US government doesn't have many good solutions to it.
As the world situation changes, the U.S. government has long promoted a project to rebuild the manufacturing industry.
Logically speaking, once large cities like Detroit and Chicago should receive a lot of benefits, and in fact they did. It seems that the former industrial cities can rise as long as capital enters the market again... But in fact, this is not the case.
These places look well-established, but in fact they are not. First of all, the infrastructure.
The infrastructure of these deindustrialized cities is actually very old. If they want to restart, they must be demolished and rebuilt. But in this way, the cost is much more expensive than building new ones from scratch!
Then there are high-quality workers...Obviously, Chicago does not have this advantage.
High-quality people are there in Chicago!
There are also low-quality black people in Chicago.
But in the middle, high-quality workers, Chicago doesn’t have them!
The decline of Chicago started a long time ago. The industrial decline in the central region did not start with Clinton as claimed on the Internet. In fact, it started after World War II. After World War II, the United States placed a large amount of military industry on the West Coast, from Washington State to the Gulf of Mexico.
Investment in military industry and military-related manufacturing industries and orders flowed from the center to the West Coast. For example, Chicago completed involuntary deindustrialization in the long postwar decades, and many people also flowed to the West Coast.
Especially the loss of middle-class families who are the backbone of society!
In this way, even if the government wants to revitalize Chicago, it will not be able to convince Congress. After all, Congress has other options!
After all, rebuilding the industrial system elsewhere will cost less and produce faster results!
Anyway, Kelly found out.
Things were not as simple as she thought. She had always thought that the problem in Chicago was gangs and government corruption and incompetence.
In reality?
This is a problem of the entire social structure.
How is this country? Let’s ask the question!
"Can this city really be good?" Kelly was lying on the bed wearing hot pants, rolling around constantly.
She is in a really bad mood today.
This originated from a small incident, she met an acquaintance.
That acquaintance was a young man, and she helped him a few years ago. Specifically, she helped him and his mother, a black mother and son. The year before last, around Christmas, she met the mother and son, and was
People rob.
She showed up, taught the criminal a lesson, and took back the black mother's money.
The little boy, who was not yet in high school at the time, was very excited. He told Kelly that he would be like Kelly when he grew up.
Kelly was very happy about this. She was still a newcomer at the time, so she would inevitably be excited when meeting fans.
So after I came back, I used my own funds to support that family.
This was good, but until a few days ago, she destroyed a gang and saw the child again.
He had already dropped out of school and joined a gang. Later, he learned from the police station that this kid already had a criminal record... for murder. It was only because he was underage that he received a light sentence.
But this time, when he was arrested, he still refused to repent. Even during the court hearing the day before yesterday, when facing the judge and the victim's family, this guy was still confident and even smiled contemptuously.
You can imagine the shock Kelly received at that time!
It’s only been a few years!
Why did the little boy who was so excited when he saw her turn into a demon?
Kelly has read his file. His latest crime was for robbery and murder...a black boy just like him. He and his accomplices fell in love with someone else's new sneakers, so they joined forces to rob him.
After just a few more words, he shot him dead.
Then they took away the boy's sneakers and jacket. When he was arrested, he was wearing the same pair of sneakers and jacket...
Catherine was sitting on a chair not far away, carefully applying nail polish to her toenails.
She didn't feel much about Kelly's complaints.
She is already very old. As an immortal witch, she has seen all kinds of things in the world and has also seen the dangers of human nature.
"The ability of environment to change people is terrifying, Kelly. Could you have imagined where you are now a few years ago?"
Catherine asked with a smile.
"But! I obviously sponsored their family, so he can receive a better education and escape from that gangster community! He can completely live a completely different life than he does now. He can go to college, find a good job, and become a
Good guy!"
Kelly turned over and sat up, then said angrily.
Catherine smiled slightly... She had some guesses that she didn't say out loud.
That's the transformation of that child, probably due to Kelly's support!