Wow, it’s pretty rigid life and rules and laws there in America. I was thinking to visit it as a tourist but seem so complicated.
I am sad to hear about your events. That is definitely not okay to be classified like this. :(
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Yes, basically the "American Dream" is dead, and the USA is not a free country, it is quickly becoming one of the less free. The one advantage USA does have with freedom however is freedom of speech, I will admit that the USA probably has the best free speech protection in the world, but that is about it, everything else is pretty much mediocre or negative.
Well as a tourist it is probably ok to visit once or twice, its just a bad place to live. It depends on where you want to visit though...a lot of the popular tourist places I think you will be SHOCKED to see that they are nothing like how you see in movies, they are not glamorous at all, and you will probably find them to be extremely disappointing. New York City for example is one of the worst places I have ever been to: cold, rainy, dirty, rat infested, unfriendly, loud, crowded, and one of the most expensive places anywhere in the world. Detroit is similar, not quite as bad traffic and not as expensive but also run down and many areas are VERY unsafe, even just walking at night is a bad idea. Miami is a ghetto full of rude and arrogant folks and gold diggers, it is just extremely..ghetto (thats where the Miami "accent" comes from, its not really its own accent, its basically just a generic ghetto accent to be blunt). California is not much better: most people want to visit LA, Hollywood, and San Francisco, and Hollywood is fun, but San Francisco is a massive ghetto now too, needles and trash everywhere and homeless camps all over, with the bad smell of fish with the harbor nearby, and LA is ok but awful traffic takes forever to get anywhere. Cali is also ridiculously expensive: 2 hour parking can easily be $28...yes thats right, PARKING is $28! I hate to use the word "ghetto" so much but that is simply how to accurately describe them.
if you want to visit, you are much better staying away from the tourist areas and big cities. Go bike riding or hiking in Virginia, hunting/shooting in upper Michigan, go to the observatory in Colorado, maybe come during a festival or something if you like that, perhaps the USA Bitcoin conference, visit Keene, New Hampshire if you like Libertarians, or maybe visit more of the off the beaten path stuff in Texas.
Anyway, just some suggestions, and also trying to prepare you for disappointment, as there is a lot of misinformation about the USA being some great utopia or something, and it is just not true.
Hope that info is helpful to you, I do hope I was not too negative, just want you to have realistic expectations, cheers. :)
Thank you for the detailed post. Is better to be realistic than hide the important stuff; no worries at all about all negative opinion. I currently live not far from London and I visited it about three times in 7 years. And is just one hour drive - I don’t like big cities, I never did. The only big cities I would consider visiting in the event of a trip to USA are Hollywood / Las Vegas (just for fun, no betting). I am more like a nature person. I would love to visit the Grand Canyon, take the Route 66, go through Utah and visit those stunning desert landscapes, and maybe a trip to Houston, if I get to Texas (big fan of NASA) lol.
It’s a huge trip with difficulties of obtaining visa for tourist, but if I will have the financial opportunity for such a trip, those are the main points I want to visit.
Thanks again for all the detailed information. I appreciate it.
No problem, glad it can be of use to you. Yes, Nevada actually has very scenic areas once you get outside the city, lots of things to see just 20-30 mins outside of Vegas. Actually the more nature and outdoors kind of things are where the USA has some strengths imo (though most of our beaches are crap: no white sand or clear water, and tons of seaweed and garbage that washes up in any USA beach I have ever been to). There are some famous trails also that are a few states long.
If you do visit, it sounds like you have a solid gameplan!