Speaking of Los Angeles, aside from all the wonderful features already mentioned before, there was one detail that had not been brought up.
Did you think it was a single city?
In fact, it was not.
Unlike Huaxia's enormous cities, which encompassed multiple districts,
many of North America's major cities were actually metropolitan clusters formed by cities of various sizes. Los Angeles, therefore, had three different definitions:
the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, and Greater Los Angeles.
When people spoke of Los Angeles, they generally meant Greater Los Angeles, which consisted of five counties and 157 cities and was the largest metropolitan area in the world.
And within Los Angeles County, which contained eighty-eight cities, the downtown area of the City of Los Angeles
was the Los Angeles center where those skyscrapers often seen in films and on wallpapers stood.
Finance, port shipping, major commerce and industry, petrochemical engineering, the internet, electronic technology, and all kinds of crucial economic sectors—
more than one world-leading company had its headquarters here.
From a bird's-eye view of Los Angeles, amid the dense, sprawling urban area that resembled moss of steel and concrete growing across the earth,
the giant-like skyscrapers housing those companies formed the most prosperous district of North America's second-largest city.
And among them stood one particularly conspicuous skyscraper.
Countless vehicles and pedestrians flowed past it. The cars were either famous brands or luxury vehicles, while every one of those people came from distinguished backgrounds.
Able to work here among Los Angeles's hundreds of cities and earn monthly salaries of tens of thousands of US Dollars, they were all successful elites in the eyes of ordinary people.
Yet even people like them would always subconsciously look up at the skyscraper as they passed, revealing traces of ambition, aspiration, longing, and