Charlie

If he plans to meet you at the Cherry Hill Mall, he probably doesn't do in-calls.

Thanks for the footnote, which is news to me. I agree with everything else.

BTW, if height is an issue for you, Santa Fe is 2000ft higher than Albuquerque.

I grew up reading the New York Daily News, since it was the only NYC paper my father bought. I can't imagine bothering with it now. The only digital paper I subscribe to is the NYT, so I will have something to read on my iPad when I am traveling. At home I want to read a real paper that I can fold while I am eating, not something on a screen.

It says that he has been on Rentmen since 2011; most of the pictures are from 2017 to 2019; the stats say he is 39, but the text obviously hasn't been updated for some time, because it claims he is 35.

Poor guy has been bumped so much, and now you want to bite him, too?

I have friends who live or have lived in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and twenty years ago we seriously considered retiring to Albuquerque, which is less expensive than Santa Fe. Albuquerque is much larger and less artsy and touristy than Santa Fe. There was a fairly laidback gay bar scene in Albuquerque then, but I know nothing about what it is like now. I did have a younger distant cousin who is straight, who worked for the local newspaper, and she said there was a lot of corruption in the local government--so much so that she soon decamped to Santa Fe (actually to Taos). We looked at housing in Albuquerque with a realtor, and one certainly got more for the buck there. The only people I know now in NM are retirees in Santa Fe, gay and straight, who moved there from the East Coast and wouldn't live anywhere else.

It would make a great RomCom script, but I suspect that the reality would be awkward, if not uncomfortable for both of you, given your history.

He definitely has an Edge.

It depends on whether the duo is a couple or only two guys who will work together. If it is the latter, trying to hire only the preferred one is usually no problem. If you are trying to separate a pair who think of themselves as a working unit, you are navigating a much trickier situation. If possible, you should contact the one you are more interested in and and inquire how they feel about working separately, and hope he gives you an honest answer. The dynamics of one couple can be very different from those of another.

To some extent it depends upon what one considers "upscale." A lot of poor neighborhoods in the central city began gentrifying in the 1960s, and still have maintained their upper-middle class residents today. In former working class neighborhoods like Fitler Square and Queen Village, residential real estate is still pretty expensive. The little brick workman's row house near 23rd and South, built for the workers in the Kelly brickyards, that we bought in 1970 for $13,200, recently sold for $625K. From river to river and Spring Garden to South Street, it is hard to find any neighborhood in Center City that qualifies as a "ghetto of poverty." Even parts of West Philly around the universities, like Powelton, are relatively expensive. However, there are miles and miles of North and South Philly that are pretty sad to contemplate.

Mt. Etna erupted today, and there are reports that ash is falling on the airport at Catania.

Aaagh!!! 24 pieces of mail in my spam folder today! The spammers must have been on strike last week.

I have no idea.

You might have some problem communicating with him in English, since he obviously tried to translate some of his Spanish text, probably with a dictionary, and wasn't altogether successful.

I sometimes wonder why an escort describes himself as "handsome" when he provides enough face pics that the reader can certainly decide for himself, since it is such a subjective description, unlike a "10 inch cock," which either is or isn't.

I don't think they can beat the old Everards on 28th St.

My spam folder is starting to fill up again with the usual stuff ("Herpes help..., " "Congratulations! You have won..." etc.)

And today I open my AOL spam folder after three days and find eleven items of the same old kinds of spam that I used to get (notices that I have won a Dyson vacuum cleaner, how to get a bigger penis, etc.).

"Feet" is not the first fetish that comes to my mind when I look at this photo

"Why should I invite Uncle Joe's friend to my wedding/graduation/birthday dinner, etc.?" "Because they are a married couple." I wasn't invited to the weddings of my partner's brothers, although I knew them. However, both our names were on the formal invitations to the weddings of his nieces and nephew. That's the difference between a romantic affair and marriage, especially for a same sex couple. We had an amusing experience recently during my spouse's annual physical, when our doctor, who is in his late fifties, asked for our advice. He married his boyfriend, who is in his thirties, a couple of years ago. He said that he doesn't know how to bring up the fact that he is interested in having sex again with other men, and wondered how we had handled that issue. I told him we had talked through that issue before we started living together, so that when that situation finally arose (sigh! it always does with sexually experienced men), there would be no unpleasant surprises ("But I thought we would always be exclusive!!!!")

Does he intend to continue escorting after you marry? Do you intend to keep hiring when you are in the mood? Are you both in agreement about whether or not monogamy is part of the arrangement? Will you both agree to keep talking honestly about issues like these? ( If you protest that they will not come up for either of you, you are both fooling yourselves.) Have you met any of his friends? Has he met any of yours? What will you tell people when they ask how you met? (Believe me, they will.) Are you comfortable about telling the truth to friends? Do you have a lawyer with whom you can discuss the legal and financial situation frankly? Like it or not, marriage is a much more social affair than sexual interaction is. I am not a nay-sayer about the possibility of genuinely falling in love at first arousal: my spouse and I decided on the day that we met that we would be together forever, and that has lasted 55 years--though not without rough patches, which both of us had to be willing and able to work through. I would still advise you to go slow before making any commitments that would be really messy to disentangle. Vegas777's suggestion above may have been made humorously, but it's not a bad one.

Although I never drink Coke, I always keep a supply of Coke Zero in case Lucky stops by. It really does seem to be the only thing he drinks.

All of his previous reviews under different names seem to have been combined under Sebatian-Scott, but he doesn't know how to spell "Sebastian" and he gives his base as Dubai (?).

No spam in either of my spam folders all weekend!