The itch, if you will, came to me in the late 90's and it all started w AMP in Stamford, the original spot was knocked down to make way for UBS HQ in Stamford, found those spots the old way via newspaper ads.That was pretty much the norm for me monthly until about the early 2000's when the interwebs opened up the hobby with a wealth of info via TBD, TER, escort service websites. The solid base of "pros" were coming to the area from Florida or services based in Florida, I can understate how insane with quality this scene was in the 2000 to 2008ish era. My first "pro independents" were Sexytoni, Molly Msgoodgolly, backed up by HQ agencies like Belldejour, Taylors Elite.
Some very hot girls eventually spun off and went independent from those services (Ashley Taylor, Victoria, Victoria Jolie, etc) that I would see somewhat regularly in addition to the deep bench of hot hot independents that had websites which frequented westchester/fairfield. There was an insane AMP in Norwalk as well called Nirvana I believe which had model caliber girls (think Asia Akira hot) with huge bolt ons and gourgeous faces.
My first forays into Manhattan were probably at JuliesofNYC, also another legendary spot that had everything from College girls to Milf Latinas and the OG belldejour/taylorselite touring girls.
Nowadays as you can see from my profile and no reviews, I dont hobby much, hailing from Westchester/CT now working in Manhattan for the last few years the quality just isnt there for me to pry the $$$ from my pockets. $400hr seems to be the norm for indy's of which few have no idea how to provide an insane relaxed gfe experience, one that would forge them long time regulars. Testing the water at $400 for me just isn't feasable, so I search for lower cost options and have found a few diamond in the rough options I keep up my sleeve for a rainy day which I will happily share/review eventually.
The push to more of a social media based community vs message boards has made me feel unsafe with my personal info, theres definitely an undertone of nastiness on the part of guys/girls which is the norm for twitter etc vs what this used to be which from my recollection was a more community based experience where everyone looked out for each other.