Essay on "If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change?"

Hi everyone,

I wrote this essay to practice my writing for IELTS exam. Any feedback or improvement from you would be really appreciate.

As the old adage goes, change is inevitable. It is often for better and cannot be done overnight. Meaning that, it could takes much effort. If there could be one thing that I need to change for my home town, I would want to change all corrupt practices and political unrest existing in my country at the present. In this essay, I'd like to give my reasons for above statements in following sentences.

Firstly, corruption is part of Thai society for very long time and takes place at every level in government from front-office clerks to minister. For example, this can happen in a way that contracts of government projects can be bought by companies involved in bidding processes, which can be harmful for development of country. Yet, some groups of people even believe that corrupt government can be accepted as long as it can make them eat and sleep well through some corrupt government's populist policy. That can be very wrong idea because in reality there is no such country in the world that prospers by corruption. Therefore, I'd like to get rid of corruption for a good future in both economy and quality of life for the whole country