The Rent Is To Damn HIGH!!!

[Mocha]

That's interesting. You should write an article about that for one of the papers or magazines, it's a intriguing aspect to the events that happened.

 

Well, I guess I was lucky that I had my regulars...so it being dead didn't have too much impact. I've grown accustomed to the dead life (talk about an oxymoron). 10 pages of visitor ads in Denver on adam4adam, and not a single genuine client....in MONTHS. Elsewhere, it works like it's supposed to. I think Denver and Seattle did good going to the Super Bowl together....they both have Capitol Hill as "gay" designated areas, and from what Chris described...both suck hairy balls when it comes to trying to do sex work.

 

Anyway, maybe it's unwise to compare Baltimore to DC in respects to the events. I received the impression that DC is rather more refined than Balt. That's like comparing Miami to West Palm Beach.

[Mocha]

Sacto must have changed since I was last there. 8 or 9 years ago, I was there for 3 days on business. I found it very bleak.

 

Hmmm, I don't know about Sacramento either. I passed thru Sac 4 times in the last 2 years. I worked with a great photographer there to do some ad photos for me, but I never got escort business there on either trip. I also went twice to a barbershop there that was great, but it seemed kinda Meh for a California haircut. In South Florida, barbers be lined up at the door to give a customer a haircut. In Sacto, they seemed like they weren't even interested in working. On top of that, Sacramento seemed kinda "ghetto suburbian" to me. I felt safe, but I could tell the youngsters were trying to be "Cali". I just wasn't in love with it.

 

I always continued on to San Francisco where I found things to workout much better and quicker for me. I know it can be hard to judge a city based on visiting, but I tend to drive and interact when I visit cities, and it doesn't take long to develop a perception of it.

 

There's lots of cities building this, that and the 3rd. Promising fun and nightlife, but all that stuff is contingent and conditional. Just because a city is expanding doesn't always mean it's going to be right for every person. I tend to not like some cities because the culture is not my cup of tea. Some places leave escorts alone. Others tend to mess us around. Or it's too family oriented, or too saturated. Or a place claims to be liberal, but attracts country bumpkins who aren't really accustomed to a truly FREE, unique, indivdual way of thinking and living. They think smoking weed and having bareback sex qualifies as liberal. So many variables, cities can be buyer beware and Your results may vary.

[Nvr2Thick]

Looked at from the perspective of racial opportunity, 13 of the best 15 cities are in the old Confederacy. Houston is #12 on the list. Atlanta is #1. California is generally bad news for people at the bottom the ladder looking to move up, although the part I live in - the Inland Empire - is better than SF or LA. And while a lot of it has to do with jobs, a lot of it is about the affordability of home ownership.

 

My former boss is a black man who had been fairly successful in Corporate America. When he moved to Atlanta he developed a different take on the situation. Through his eyes he sees some typical dominant forces multiplied by the strong African American community. Many companies still hire with a strong racial bias. He came to admit that much of the success in his career had been from companies where discrimination was still very real, but that wanted to have a few black men and women in some leadership positions so that their portfolio looked good. He performed well and looked good. He is a former college jock and says he was exactly what white male dominated management wants to work with; a cool black guy who they can talk about sports with. In Atlanta, he discovered that asset was neutralized because there are so many other experienced athletic black men. Companies that just wanted to fulfill some expectation for diversity had plenty of young, experienced black jocks to choose from.

 

His assessment of some companies was either reverse discrimination, or places where black men and women in leadership became a majority and exercised their influence to combat discrimination; he was unsure of which. He told me of two interviews where leadership and HR personnel outright stated that he was a strong candidate because he fit in well with the black community they were maintaining.

 

It was an eye opener for him. He spent the first 15 years of his career thinking that the world had changed for the better, without realizing that his physical presence as an in-shape former jock made him an anomaly. His perspective now is that race is a far more dominant factor then he would have previously believed.

[Rudynate]

. On top of that, Sacramento seemed kinda "ghetto suburbian" to me.

 

 

Exactly my impression. I way staying in a hotel right close to the capitol building, and the immediate area was beautiful. But if you walked a couple of blocks in any direction, it began it seem like one continuous, seedy , run-down suburb.

[Frequentflier]

I just didn't understand it, the way he wrote it. And with your explanation, I cannot understand why anyone wouldn't depreciate their rental properties. Otherwise, they're screwing themselves annually and they're going to get screwed at the end, too!

 

Except for a few type of real estate investors/landlords (like I believe realtors - thank their lobby), the use of annual losses is limited. If loss generated by depreciation can't be used to offset the income or carried forward, a taxpayer might want to forego depreciation and have a higher basis when the property is sold. The IRS won't allow that option.

[instudiocity]

Except for a few type of real estate investors/landlords (like I believe realtors - thank their lobby), the use of annual losses is limited. If loss generated by depreciation can't be used to offset the income or carried forward, a taxpayer might want to forego depreciation and have a higher basis when the property is sold. The IRS won't allow that option.

Right, currently tax law disallows what you're suggesting some are doing, to their detriment. I was struggling to understand the way you said it, not what you meant. Slater straightened me very kindly.

[+ stevenkesslar]

His assessment of some companies was either reverse discrimination, or places where black men and women in leadership became a majority and exercised their influence to combat discrimination; he was unsure of which. He told me of two interviews where leadership and HR personnel outright stated that he was a strong candidate because he fit in well with the black community they were maintaining.

 

I actually view this as a form of a victory for racial equality. "Reverse discrimination" sounds bad, just like "discrimination." But it's probably true that to one degree or another, there is and always has been at least a little bit of favoritsm among white "ethnics," Irish for Irish, Italian for Italian. We're such a "white" melting pot that I don't know that it makes much of a difference anymore, but if we got to the point where some businesses simply flavored a black leadership environment, just like I'm guessing some businesses in the past might have favored and Irish leadership environment, that's not an entirely bad thing. All the income data all show that when you average it out, Asians and "whites" are at the top of the income and net worth heap, and blacks and "Hispanics" are way lower down. I don't think race or ethnicity will ever just fade away completely, I don't know that they should. To me the better goal is me toward a society where regardless of race or ethnicity the outcomes are more or less the same, for people that are working hard to achieve success. Your boss obviously was, and my guess he is in the middle or upper class.

 

All the data show that the push toward home ownership was at least for a time an effective way to help a lot of blacks and Hispanics (as well as many whites) move into the middle class, and when the subprime things exploded it took a disproportionate share of blacks and Hispanics out of the middle class. That is truly a tragedy.

[Guest ChrisW]

This is what bad urban planning and piss poor housing policy looks like

 

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[+ WmClarke]

This is what bad urban planning and piss poor housing policy looks like

 

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/5579f42bf92ea15cc70041fa/SF-Spring-15.png

Wow. That's even worse than I imagined.

[+ stevenkesslar]

This is what bad urban planning and piss poor housing policy looks like

 

By the way, love the new pic Chris. That's what a sexy escort looks like. Let me know if you ever need a place to stay.

[Rudynate]

This article isn't telling the whole story though. I'm not really thrilled by the way the article claims the best cities for Blacks are in the south. All of my relatives have been from the south, and stayed in the south. Most have done well for themselves, but I'm the ONLY person in all of my relatives to live outside of the south. But when people are lead to believe the best places for Blacks are in the south...they don't go anywhere else.

 

From a gay perspective, I attest the south isn't the best for ALL blacks. Go outside the cities, there's no opportunity. Non of those cities listed are particularly great when you add escort to the sentence, except DC...but that's based on visiting, and as attractive as DC appears as a market, it's a fierce competition among Black escorts. Ditto with Atlanta. Outside the escort business, those so-called best for Black cities are very cutthroat, and it's the Black folk doing most of the keeping other Black folks down. In the 2 times I've been to DC, staying for about a week each time...I've never had a black client. And DC has no shortage of Black money. I'd have to wonder if White escorts have a different experience.

 

And I am totally turned off about the prospect of moving to DC after all that Baltimore shit went down. That stuff affects business for ethnic escorts....my business went dead during those 2 weeks, and I was 3,000 miles away in the SW. I can't imagine how much more dead it would have been had I planned a trip anywhere near Maryland.

 

That being said, sad but true...in America, I find the best cities are the ones that aren't majority Black. But, one would have to be vigilant because some cities like Denver, Minneapolis, and Kansas City with low populations of highly concentrated blacks aren't much better. They would much quicker date, befriend, or hire a white or Hispanic person than another black person.

 

People I've come across in Florida, Conneticut, New York and Cali...I've found to be more equal opportunity. Every other state, you end up taking your chances never knowing what you're going to end up with. As for Houston, it often seemed racist to me from both Hispanics and Whites and was never really a "great" place with friendly people.

 

I'm ready to leave this country by the time I'm 30.

 

 

Save your money. In order to get a residence visa, in Canada, for example, you either have to have education and work experience that the government deems useful or be able to show that you have the assets to keep yourself from becoming a burden to the state.