She once thought of San Francisco as the “best city in the world”. But after a string of incidents that threatened her safety and well-being, she decided to fly halfway around the world and settle in sunny Singapore instead.
Heather, aka @unicornheatt, shared in a TikTok video how she moved to San Francisco from her hometown of Cupertino City in California to complete her studies in Architecture.“The dream was always to go there because it’s the best city in the world – or so I thought,” she said.
She experienced and witnessed first-hand several “smash-and-grab” incidents, like when someone smashed her car windows and stole from the vehicle in 2021.Things got worse, she said, when she was assaulted in broad daylight while walking home from the dentist one day. She told a story of how she saw a man running around openly with a gun while she was walking her dog. The man ran within three metres of her and her pet.Though some women are urged to carry a taser or pepper spray for self-defence in San Francisco, Heather questioned the point of it.
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