Rudynate

No place is perfect.

No, I never said it did. You're exactly right - he didn't think it through before he did it. I have lived abroad - I know what it's like. I loved it, but it was at times very difficult and I experienced moments of deep isolation.

What I love about Canadians is that they are exactly like us and nothing like us, all at the same time. I have lots of relatives in Quebec - all in the Trois-Rivieres area - they've been there since the mid-1600''s

I wouldn't even consider moving anywhere where I didn't already speak the language. To expect yourself to learn a new language in addition to everything else just is a lot to ask of yourself. I have already decided that I will not move out of the country, but I am keeping Canada as an option if things get too weird in the US. I was saying to a freind just the other day that it would be good idea to establish what the trigger would be for leaving the US. Lots of German Jews got caught because they kept putting off leaving - they hadn't identified a triggering circumstance so it was easy to keep putting it off.

True - it is a personal issue. But loneliness among the elderly is a widespread problem, right here in the US. Add in the complicating factors of being a stranger in a strange land, a language barrier, gay in a Latin country - and you have loneliness waiting to happen. Being a tourist is a different thing - its their job to be nice to you. I'm sure the Portuguese are lovely - but they already have lives. They aren't sitting around waiting to befriend the next expat American who moves in down the road.

Kind of obvious isn't it - he was lonely.

Right - definitely nice build - he wouldn't win any contests though.

He looks great - just a guy who's in reasonably good shape. I wish I could see the more recent pics - I like 'roided physiques.

I've never been in a situation like that, so I can't be sure, but I just don't think I would care. Obviously, the guy needs social skills, but why not choose somebody who's drop-dead handsome? I don't feel like I have anything to hide. For years, I have thought about hiring a guy to go to church with me. I love midnight mass on Christmas Eve and my husband won't go because he hates Christianity. It would be great to make an evening of it with a guy who looks terrific in a nice suit, have dinner before, and turn heads when we walk into Grace Cathedral. Actually, my husband would be completely OK with it.

Actually, come to think of it. I escorted an older woman to the opera once. It was the mother of a co-worker. The mother was coming to visit and wanted to go to the opera and my friend hated the opera, so she asked me if I would take her mother. My friend paid for the tickets, the mother treated me to dinner and we went to the opera together. It was a great evening and It was nice to give the mother an experience a nice experience.

He's also on RM, specialized in FF.

In the screwball comedies of the mid-20th century, when women could not go anywhere without a male escort, there were often wealthy widows who had to attend an event such as a wedding or a charity ball, and they would call an escort service, which would send over an escort who turned up perfectly dressed, with perfect manners, etc. I have often wondered whether those escort services actually existed or whether they were just a thing in the movies. I think there are guys on cruise ships who are hired to provide company to unaccompanied women. I don't see why you couldn't hire a provider just for company. I wouldn't expect a break on his rate though. Service is service.

I have had four boosters - 10/21, 4/22, 10/22, 5/23.

I wish I could remember who it is - a very popular, welll known guy, has mentioned that he has a scheduler.

I suspect there's a market for that too.

They've been doing that for a long time.

I love my investment adviser. He is straight but I feel completely comfortable with him. His office is in Millbrae, close to SFO. I will give you his name if you would like. PM me.

A zero-overhead business - nothing better than that.

Why would you adjust your rates for a Canadian market? If you are going there to work, and you lowered your rate to attract Canadians who were used to a lower rate, going to Canada to work wouldn't make much sense business-wise. Better to stay home in a market that will pay the rate you are accustomed to. OTOH if you were going to Canada mostly for pleasure and wanted to see a few clients to defray some of your travel cost, that would make sense.

This probably sounds scandalously shallow, but I like spray tan. I just do it from time to time, mostly for fun. One time, I got a coat of spray tan before my husband and I left for a camping trip in the Sierras. We were getting some groceries in Nevada City and I had a bunch of straight women cruising me in the grocery store.

As above, health care workers can be careless with terminology as well as the lay population.

Right - I felt like a cheap bastard.

One time, I hired a guy in Vancouver. I paid in loonies and the exchange rate was extremely favorable to the US dollar. Since I was thinking in terms of exchange rates, it seemed to me like he was working for peanuts and I offered to pay more than his rate in loonies. He said no, that was fine. It didn't occur to me that he could care less about the exchange rate - that a loonie was a loonie and still had the same buying power, whatever the exchange rate was.

I assume that when an escort or a masseur keeps coming back, it's becasue he found it worthwhile. "Worthwhile" can mean a lot of things - maybe he comes back because he "left his heart" in San Francisco. The point is that he said he would probably never come back and now visits regularly, so in one way or another, it seems to be working for him.

I once saw a traveling masseur, I think he was from Florida - it was his first time in San Francisco and he was very disappointed - I was his only client. He said he probably wouldn't be back. Since then, he has started visiting here regularly and he always lets me know that he is coming. I can''t believe he would keep coming back if it wasn't worth his while.