I came to terms with it LONG AGO that I was going to have to drive to the SB to get the looks/service combo I (we all) so enjoy.

BUT IT'S SO FRUSTRATING...
There are beautiful asian girls ALL OVER THE PLACE in the east bay (Oakland, Berkeley, etc.).

I get so worked up sometimes I slip and hit one of the local MP's (for convenience sake). And while the experience is rarely "horrible" (I mean, a shitty BJ is still a BJ), I'm always left thinking about how much better my $ would have been spent is the SB. A recent (EB) experience left me particularly disturbed... I honestly think I was serviced by a "mentally challenged" RA. Not cool. (Maybe she just looked like that?). Faking an orgasm while inside a possibly (no offense) retarded sex-worker was really a low point for me in this "hobby" of mine. I had to drive to SB that same night for some eye-candy because I could tell I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep otherwise.

The brief running of KP Emeryville was GREAT for me (though still slightly below top tier SB standards).
RBGFE, good talent (excellent for EB), reliable(?)
then "poof"......... gone.

It was such a "tease".

I guess what I want to know is :
WHY does the East bay FAIL so hard at the (A)AMP game? Just... Why?

There are hookers walking down the streets here, many times with the police just passing them by. There are hookers in hotels here, I rarely hear of busts. So I doubt it's because they get shut down too quickly. Some of us "locals" are quite used to illegal activities occurring in our communities, and "behind closed doors" prostitution ranks amongst the least troublesome (IMO).

Is it just demographics?
More crime and poverty = More potential robberies and less potential customers?
That coupled with high living costs just makes the SB a better bet and anybody with their "shit together" opens up shop out there?

That's the best theory I can come up with myself, but I'm curious about what other theories are out there.

Please.... enlighten me.
It seems like an org with their "shit together" could really clean-up out here (due solely to the lack of competition).

I used to work in the East Bay and So San Francisco and did my prowling there, for the last year I have been working in Santa Clara and the difference is in talent is going to drive me to the poor house, now I session two to three times a week.

• Client Stream
• Anonymity
• LE Proclivities and Priorities

Client Stream

The South Bay not only has a disproportionate male population owing to the high tech component of its economy, many of them are well compensated. They also tend to not be the "player/alpha male" class, making it even more difficult to find easy female companionship regardless of marital status.

Anonymity

Of all the places I've lived (including Berkeley, East coast, outside US) over the decades, the South Bay much more others, is anonymous. One of my first observations as a transplanted East Coaster, was the lack of neighborhood sensibilities (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Jose, Fremont, Milpitas). From cultural enclaves to humongous, sprawling complexes that many of us lose 20% of our special hours to because of navigational and easement challenges, we are unknowns and nobody asks what we're doing there, for the most part. As complete strangers, we're just as much a part of the landscape as the observer and are left unharassed.

LE Proclivities and Priorities

They seem mostly to not be up in arms unless something gets out of hand. Almost five years ago, I wrote about the efficacy of Black Thursday or lack thereof, arguing that the Feds succeeded solely as a dispersant of Korean businesses as opposed to trafficking interdictors (i.e. no trafficking here, move along), making it far more difficult (and costly) to prosecute in the future. Kevin Ryan, the Ninth District US Attorney (somewhat) in charge of Operation Gilded Cage, was given the opportunity to resign shortly thereafter owing largely to "blistering" negative evaluations; others (Brad Schlozman) met similar fates (sorry, I might have strayed). Todays operations, notwithstanding KP of late, don't seem to have the continuity and mass of the pre-BT AMPs and would therefore be much more difficult to get a reading on let alone a justification for action.

In the final analysis, the South Bay isn't the only place to do business but it might breed the most success. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #22...

A wise man can hear profit in the wind.

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Rompe Palle

And YEAH, no strip clubs either!!!
Though... a strip club in Oakland would NOT be a pretty sight.

"Most dangerous parking-lot in America"?