just returned from Russia where I had a very interesting trip.  I will tell you about it, but you may get bored by the story or disbelieve it.  If you wish, you can skip to the end where I have some information about traveling overseas that may interest you.

Thanks, but I'll pass.  Pussy is cheap in Central America, too, but it's warm there and most people speak some English.

and from what I hear, if anything you OVERPAID.  

Russia has beautiful women. That's the good part. The part that would give me pause is how shady the sex industry can be in Eastern Europe. Men from Ukraine and other eastern european nations have been infiltrating the western european sex trade. The places that they take over become clip joints. I inadvertently went into one in Paris thinking it was just a strip bar. I literally had to run out of there before they started cleaning out my bank account. You pay X number of Euros to get in. Then you sit down and they open a bottle of champagne for you without asking you and they expect 600 euros for that. If you protest they act like they are going to kill you. So I guess I am just saying to be careful since you see that kind of behavior from Russians sometimes too. Your description though is pretty tempting!  I was curious - did you ever ask the girl whose family you had dinner with if they knew? Also when you were with 2 girls did they have sex with each other or no? I ask because its taboo there.

their game seems to be the upsell.  Services that are normal menu items for GFE service here, like DFK and CIM, are upsell items from Russian and Eastern Euro women that are working in SoCal.  After having some $300/hr dates turn into $450 I just stopped going to them.  

Do any of them do Russian

Is in Odessa, Ukraine in the spring and summer. I go there almost every year. You don't have to use agencies there at all. It's super easy to pick up beautiful girls just about anywhere. At the beach, clubs, cafe's, streets etc. If a girl in Odessa smiles at you, she is yours, and they smile alot at foreign tourists lol. It truly is a hobbying paradise. If anyone ever wanted to experience being Hugh Hefner (on a budget) this is a place to go.

How is it safety-wise?

Also, I avoid professional hookers and just focus on regular girls who are desperate to meet foreigners who might fall in love and take them out of the country. So often times they will be very happy with just a gift like perfume or shoes

You might be right about the 1% membership but I have to wonder if the lower part of the Russian 1% are living as well as the lower part of the USA 1%.

I will confess I went to a "casa" in Cartagena Colombia that scared the shit out of me one night, After seeing the guy in the parking lot openly carrying a machine gun my buddy didn't even want to get out of the cab, but I looked at it this way, If we were going to die that night, we were already dead whether we got out of the cab or not. Speaking strictly for myself, I have ZERO intention of going out cowering and sniveling in the back of a Colombian cab.

Illegal activity in Russia is a way of life, you can't get anything done without paying someone off.  A hooker working out of a club gives a substantial cut to the owner; true in many other countries. Yes, the mob probably owns the club.  I do not agree that in Russia $23 per hour will put you in the 1%.

SUCKS.  If you like beets, potatoes, and herring then good for you...you'll like it.  Ever hear of a famous Russian establishment famous for it's food.  No.  OK,OK, NYC had one but it was not "great".   And no, the Russian Lady in Hartford Conn. is NOT Russian.

I have heard Odessa is great, but I never made it there. Long ago I found Prague to be similarly fun. I did make it to Moscow about 15 years ago, and I remember one night at the (then) famous club Nightflight where I over-payed for an AMAZING ON. My memory is not at all impacted by having overpaid.  

...You ever heard of the Russian Tea Room?  Nah, it's out of your league.  Oh, BTW, it's been around since 1927.  They must be doing something right.

big spender? Didn't think so.

I agree with what you said up until the end. Russia is full of hotties. You saying otherwise makes me think you have never been there. It was a common misconception during the Cold War that Russian women were fat manly pigs and that just is not the case. But I do agree with you about the corruption and the danger there. I think you are putting yourself at great risk in MANY countries when you hobby there. I was surprised to see how carefree guys are about it from the comments on here.

I completely avoid Russian women.  I don't think they're that good-looking, and they always seem to be stuck-up gold diggers.  And I'm talking both civie and professional.  The only women that I avoid more than Russians would be the French.

Billions of people live long healthy lives in these "dangerous" countries of which you speak. To be perfectly honest about it, the "hobby" in many of these third world countries that you are so afraid of is actually quite safer than the US in many ways for both the provider and the client alike. In much of the world, "what we do" is perfectly legal which gives BOTH parties protection under the law in case of a "misunderstanding" or if an actual crime is committed against hooker or john alike.

but didn't you get sick of each other (being together for 15 days)? The rate seems pretty decent and I assume you paid for all the travel, food and hotel stays.

I think a lot of Americans are so enamored by the low prices in other countries, they don't realize when they are paying "above market" rates as even the rip off joints seem cheap by American standards.

This board is proof there are some quite unattractive, BSC Russian women out there, but that doesn't mean ALL Russian women fit the stereotype. I have been with some absolutely DDG Russian women that were fabulous lovers and not at all greedy or BSC.

You forgot German, Dutch, Austrian, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, English, Irish, Scottish, and...well, I think you get my drift.

Does no one ever consider the cost of living compared to here when they look at how "cheap" life is somewhere else?  

The end of your post is amusing, calling out ugly Americans and all.  

I find it odd that someone at the lower end of this business, in the price point department that is, would herself be such an elitist in thinking that women who face a harder existence than her somehow value their lives less. I bet you she looks down her nose at BP providers who charge ten dollars an hour less than her too.

I would love to hear her try to explain how classy it is to hike through mud to see a client for $200 a week.
Nasdarovya!

...is stellar for mongering. Affordability, awesome women, and safety given the legality and regulation of prostitution there. Granted it helps that I speak Spanish but still, I've definitely toned down my hobbying in my immediate area for frequently and extended trips down there, which is only a few hours from Los Angeles and/or San Diego.

and American and Russian men..

Thanks!  I was worried you wanted to force me to taste 60-year-old sweet love.

Actually, I WAS there.