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    Default Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    This has really become a dillema for me. I live in Oregon now, the club I just quit working at 2 days ago was aweful and the money was pathetic. I dont have a car anymore so I cant drive to any neighboring cities and I just dont feel like settling for a day job.

    I was very interested in thebestdancers.com and using them to get booked in St. Petersburg, FL. I would pay for my own ticket and be reimbursed at the end of a 4 week contract (5 days a week, 6 hours a day) and shared lodging would be free. The website said girls earn around $300-$800 a night. After reading bad things about agents in general and imagining the money probably not being as great as its made out to be I would be satisfied making $200 a night average and being able to take home $4,000 and have a sunny vacation.

    But I could also work in Las Vegas. I have my dance card from 2 years ago but i was under 21 then so i will probably need a new one, plus ive heard something about business licenses (are they really $150?) then i would also have to pay for my own hotel and gas (my sister in AZ would let me borrow her extra car). i figure that it will cost about the same as a plane ticket to florida to become properly licenced to work and stay at the budget suites for a week. but i would do it if i could make more than the $4,000 i think i could get out of florida - and i dont even know if i could really even make that in florida! the club there could be a total dud. but im not a barbie or a hustling machine so vegas could be disappointing as well (it definately was when i was 20)

    either way i have no job in oregon, i will go totally broke and move in with my mom before i submit myself to that club again. I ordered the Dancers Wealth homestudy course and it should get here next week and i think that will give me an edge and improve my sales which ever place i end up going. any advice you can offer would be appreciated very much.

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    Velouria,

    Listen I've worked in Las Vegas 2X, It's great money....
    The other license you need is about $100 dollars. I've worked at Spearment Rhino, Jaquars,
    Treasures etc..
    The best club is Spearment Rhino hands down. On weekends and most weekdays in the summer which is now.. the slow season for them... I made 1000 no lie.
    Yes I admit I do look like a latina barbie to most people, but even if you made half that it is still real good money.
    There are also short term rental apartments that cater to exotic dancers specifically and have real resonable rates with in room safes etc.
    The #'s of these places I remember were located in the Spearment Rhino dressing room. Flyers here and there.
    It is a bit difficult to get hired there in the summer because it's the slow season... But there are many clubs there regardless.

    Hope this helps
    G luck

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    Vegas, hands down. No contest. Enough cliches?

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    If you are not a hustling machine and were disappointed with stripping in Vegas before, I wouldn't recommend going there again - at least not now.

    Business is better and steadier and EASIER in AZ. Trust me. If you have a sister here, why not just stay with her for a while, borrow her car to get to work and get yourself on your feet? Practice your hustle in a place where it's easier, then if you want to try Vegas later (like when convention season is on), it's cheap and easy to get there from here, and if it doesn't work out it's easy to get back to AZ!

    As for St Petersburg, FL - I'd just skip that altogether

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    I would take B's advice and go to AZ--get more comfortable with a good, consistent hustle before you try to leave whatever safety net you have with your family nearby. I would not recommend trying to jump into Vegas or go all the way to FL--although if I had to dance there, St. Pete would be one of the first places I would go, to be honest. There's a lot of money in the nearby resort areas, and I would want to dance there or in Sarasota (which is only a few minutes away from one of the ten richest zip codes in America, by the way).

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    I am From Florida my entire life minus the last year (living in Vegas)...I've never once heard anything either way (good or bad) about St. Petersburg. Another words, it is probably not even in the runnings...

    Vegas is the shit. Read the club reviews section on vegas and pick a club. You can find anything from gown clubs to more dive places and everything in between...I love how flexible the clubs are on hours too. You can find many places that will let you come and go as you please with only a 4 or so hour minimum.
    A gorgeous hotel alternative in Vegas for dancers only!
    www.likeahomelasvegas.com

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    Yes I live in the same county st. pete is located in and I think theres only like 2 clubs there and they are dives and in bad areas. There are some nice areas in st. pete but there arent any clubs located in those areas the average house price in those areas on the water is over a million and the residents wouldnt have those clubs so the few are in bad areas. If you would like to try florida there are better areas.

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    Default Re: Can you help me decide between traveling to work in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg?

    Thank you all for your advice.
    Arizona is an option I overlooked!
    I think I will investigate it further...

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