Last time I visited your country I was greeted with graffiti written by locals saying "Tourists go home" Maybe Thailand are just returning the gesture ?
We also went on a train to San Jose for the day and that was an interesting place, very quiet and there wasn't as many people walking around the downtown, but I have to be honest it felt a lot safer there to me, we didn't venture into Oakland although we wanted to go over the bridge, the Media possibly played its part in stopping us going there.
The drug use was in the down town area 100%. I was with Children one was 12 and the other was 3. I stayed near Ashbury on Grove Street and we was in what looked to me like a beautiful rich area but sadly close to there was I where i witnessed the first mugging. Also one morning going for breakfest with the kids one of the Homeless shouted " You are Nazis who r*ape Asian babies" None of us are Asian by the way, i was with my British family. 😅 Apart from that the Grove street area was pretty safe and beautiful and we didn't see as many problems there. There seemed to be a real lack of poilce presence in the City including downtown, would you say that's fair ? I love the USA and San Francisco has a lot to offer but I think the residents there should make a stand because these people are ruining what is a beautiful City. I went in shops and saw items such as deoderent locked behind glass ? We did Alcatraz and the Golden Gate bridge also the Waymo Taxi cars blew my mind! but it does it have real problems.
I'm a Brit and I love the USA and travel there regularly. I have just returned to Thailand from a 2 week vacation in San Fransisco and during that time I saw drug addicts everywhere downtown openly smoking pipes in the street. I also saw 2 muggings on mothers pushing prams. I've travelled a fair bit and that was the first time I felt unsafe in a City. Really sad because the US is in general a great country and San Francisco is a beautiful City.
not exactly true. I used Agents for years, I had Volounteer Visas and then Marriage Visas. My situation changed so I could show the 400K. I went to my local immigration and there was no issues extending my Visa inside the country with them, so I guess it depends on your local immigration.