Besides the age-old argument that the world is inherently evil and that there will always be something that is imperfect, here's an alternative solution to the above question.
The very reason why we can have the concept of utopia is because we live in a dystopia - taken here to be a society with imperfections, rather than its conventional meaning of a dysfunctional society. Thus, so long as we have the concept of utopia, it means that there is something in our current society that has not been perfected to utopian standards. If somehow, we managed to perfect every facet of our society, then we would have lost the concept of utopia - indeed, we probably wouldn't know that it was utopia, because we would not have the concept of a perfect place to compare it to.
In other words, the concept of utopia can never be realized.
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