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Originally Posted by Old-T
I agree that there are plenty of places where prices are steady or have dropped--and holding steady over 10 years is essentially a drop. Unfortunately some of the places I spend a lot of time--DC among them--have bucked the trend and have moved upwards. There used to be a lot of very nice ladies at (or below) $250 in DC. Established, high reputation, high reliability, top quality ladies. Now anything under $350 is perceived as "a bargain". There are exceptions--some post on here--but the number of those have dropped quite a lot.
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It seems to me that D.C. is something of a special case. Yes, the economy all across the nation seems to be improving a bit. In fact, one area where I spend a fair amount of my time (Dallas-Fort Worth) has been doing quite nicely. Apartment construction is rolling along at the most rapid rate in a number of years.
But recent commercial real estate numbers I've seen for the D.C. area boggle the mind. The money is flowing like crazy, and no doubt most of the income increases have gone to those who are fairly affluent, as income disparity has widened in recent years. That set of dynamics must bode very well for upscale providers.
And, yes, flat pricing in nominal terms over a decade amounts to a significant drop in real terms. $1.26 today has purchasing power only equal to approximately that of a buck in 2004.
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Originally Posted by Old-T
That is very consistent with what I hear from many of the ladies I stay in touch with. Volume is down, and dropping their prices beyond where they have already dropped them makes it fiscally impractical.
That is why I just shake my head (OK, sometimes I also post) when I see so many guys do back of the envelope math and claim a "typical" lady sees 6 guys a day, 6 days a week, and makes "conservatively" $250,000 a year--tax free of course because all the ladies are too foolish to pay taxes.
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I've heard the same from a few ladies. Quite attractive ones, too, by the way.
To the uninformed and the naive, escorting sounds like an easy, fantastically lucrative gig.
That isn't necessarily so, although it obviously can be fairly renumerative for those who do it right.
