Hello TER community...

Need some advice about how to start my plunge into the hobbying in the Chicagoland area.  I've listed them below, but before that, some background about me:

I am not new to the P4P scene, my experience has mostly been in Pattaya, Angeles City, & the Dominican Republic.  Mainly for the ease of  access and the ability to take two weeks or more overseas.  This has served me well for several years but for the last two years, my situation has changed where I can no longer take that amount of time off.  Thought that going frequently to Domincan would suffice, but I can afford to go only twice a year due to all my obligations that eat up my vacation days.  Also I had the language advantage in Angeles City due to learning my native language myself.

Prep work that I've done:
Set up a new email for this hobby & a separate hobby phone
About to sign up for RS2K verification (read enough here that has me convinced)
About to sign up for VIP here at TER

If you've read this far, thank you and hopefully you can help me out with my questions.

How should I start out here in NW suburbs the Schaumburg area in particular?
I am very particular to asians and petite women, I don't know if this is because I've been in Asia so long.  I was leaning on trying out Spicy Thai girls and Korean Palace to start out and graduate to better pasteurs.

Should I even start hobbying in the US considering the amount of risk involved?  Mongering overseas also has it's risks but when I get back to Chicago it stays overseas.  It's quite jarring the amount of hoops to be safe.  I am hoping it will be worth it.

For the members that have similar experiences as I do overseas, what can I expect from GFE here in America versus the GFE that you can get from the Pinays or Thais?  I am really looking forward to experiencing what providers here can do.  From what I've read, some of the ladies here sound amazing.
I believe in you get what you pay for, but the contrast in cost versus my previous venues was initially a deterant.  I then looked at total cost and time and effort to fly out for this.  It pretty much evens out.  My question is, is the experience here equal or better than what I've experienced.

I know the above IMO makes me sound very reluctant and being unfair in terms of comparing apples and oranges since the system here is different than overseas.  But I would realliy like to join this community and want to take the plunge properly with any help from this community.  I will continue to read and research as much about the community and each potential providers here.  Thanks for reading.

Cheers,
Sanmig76