Over the past few years, Chiayi has seen some really impressive changes: brand-spanking-new eight-lane roads now sprawl out in every direction from the city center, once-ubiquitous dilapidated military dependents 'villages have been razed, and 20-plus-story buildings have been springing up everywhere like so many concrete mushrooms.
這些年嘉義變得厲害，一條條嶄新的八線道馬路，從市中心朝四周延伸；原先遍布在市區的老舊眷村全部剷平，一棟棟二十多層的水泥高樓從地表竄起，迅速向周遭擴散。