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CR as we all know is unique among the world's mongering locations in that a substantial proportion of the working girl population originates from other locales (primarily of course, Nicaragua, Colombia & the DR). Sure, there's a lot of Haitians plying their trade in the DR, but it's not on the same scale as here.

So here's a 'what if'. If most of the non-native girls were to jump on a plane, bus or train tomorrow and return to their home countries, would enough ticas then jump in to fill the resulting void? Not likely to happen anyways of course, though with the reported decrease in mongers in CR, I'm wondering if this scenario might not be so far-fetched?

Also would appreciate any comments from the old-timers as to when the "foreign girl" trend began and what triggered it - was it primarily the Del Rey's opening and ensuing popularity, or a combination of factors?

I would think that if business got that bad....it would all be relative, less providers, serving less mongers.

I started going to CR in about 92'. At that time there were no girls in the DR, all the action was at KL, all the girls were Ticas, they wore evening gowns.

As for what caused the blow-up and introduction of foreign girls, I think it was the internet more than anything. That bought tons of guys and alerted the sharper than average Colombianas that there was money to be made. The less than sharp followed after it was a proven commodity. Nicas were probably always there in small numbers but grew as well when the internet crowd came down.

I think that "If" all the foreign girls left alot of the locals would replace them. They were all local before the others showed up. I think the level of competition is too much for alot of the locals and it's a hard-core environment now which it wasn't before and that may keep many away as well.

Another unique factor of CR is the part timers.In TJ or LOS the hours worked are strict and many come from so far stopping in to work on the weekends becomes almost impossible.But DR,KL and Sportsmans have many chicas you see around at best 2 days a week.That leads me to believe the local ticas could fill the void easily on weekends with those in need of extra cash.

I, like Jsmythe23 first came to CR in '92. I would agree with what he said about the action being in the KL but the reason there was no action in the HDR is because it was not open yet. When it did open it basically catered to fishermen who stayed one night in San Jose going and one night coming back from their fishing trip. There were many working girls there from the start as these guys were free with the buck.

There were other venues that were popular with mongers such as Happy Days, Little & Big Nashville South, Lucky's Piano Blanco Bar, Park Hotel just to name a few.

There were fewer MP's then today. It was not unusual for a girl to work in an MP in the morning and early afternoon then spend some time in Happy Days or some other place and end up at KL after nine at night. Nine was when the cover charge started and the gringos started to filter in.

There was no shortage of Ticas and the pretty much made up 100% of the working girls. There were less mongers then now but I think that if the monger population stayed steady and the foreign girls left there would still be enough girls to fill the void.

I knew a guy who had a party house in Escazu. He had, literally, over a hundred girls he could call. Many of them called him everyday to see if he had anything going on. Most of these girls were from Hatillo and Desemparados and never worked the gulch. When he sold his house and moved back to the states, health problems, the girls still called the new owner seeing if anything was going on. My point is there are easily a thousand prostitutes who do not want to compete against the hard core Nicas and Colombians but could easily fill any void.

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I know several Nicas who are or have worked. All that I know of moved to Costa Rica with their families many years ago to escape the things that were going on in Nicaragua. Their stories vary but most started working after having their first babe.

I wonder if the number of working chicas isn't directly proportional to the number of mongers and what they are willing to spend.

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Id argue that.
In LOS girls are basically working "when they want" now, if they are anywhere near the upper tier on the commodity list.

You also get girls working the weekends, or random days trying to get some easy cash. But its changed quite a bit over the years I believe. It wouldn't be out of this world for a girl to drive you back to the hotel in a car/SUV, and almost likely she has a moto near by.

None the less, I think alot more girls are "willing" to provide the service, then what the market allows. Its like all sales jobs. Im sure everyone and their dog with any sales experience would go sell real estate in some high end market, but when you have soo much competition and you have nothing more to offer then the girl next to you; why bother?

Eliminate the competition (Dominicans, Ticas, Colombians ) who many find favorable; and your back in the ball game.

I mean think of it. How many girls honestly circulate the Del Rey; a couple thousand tops? Your really want to argue, that in a country with as much poverty stricken areas as Costa Rica that not even 2000 Costa Rican girls would be willing to make good money having sex?

The Del Rey ladies make good money per encounter but how many encounters per month does the average woman have? And then look at their expenses--cab fare, drinks they have to buy, possibly baby-sitting expenses, possibly extra clothes (including fancier underwear) expense,etc. etc. They may make more per month than the average Tica but how much do they actually net? It would be a great study for the UCR Sociology/ Cultural Anthropology/ Behaviorist Economics Departments, I think.

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Yes, there is definitely an "underground" population of pros working and available, probably many of whom originally worked the Del Rey or MP scene and built up a list of clients over time whom they stay in touch with and can rely on for reasonably steady business. I've been with a few of those types myself.

However, I wonder how many of these girls would be willing to jump back in to the biz full-time and hit the Del Rey or Sportsmens again should the competition level change? Maybe they're perfectly happy with the current setup and see no need to return to working out in the open again. Something to ponder...

I remember from about 10 years ago when I used to hang in the HDR that there were a few ladies who came in dressed to the nines when the family was a little low on cash. I met one delightful lady in that situation who had 2 dresses and came late for about a week. I never saw her before or later. I expect that she was just coming in to pay a few bills. She was probably semi-retired from her earlier visitations to the KL a few years before.

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Interesting post. I also made my first trip around 1992. I remember a nice sized earthquake the first day my friends and I arrived. The action was the Key Largo, we stayed at the Hotel Amstel, now the Morazan and it was a fluke that as for my friends bachelors party we were right next door to the action. We had no info of this at the time just great luck. So, here we were, all of us pushing 30 and all of these ticas willing to take care of us. It was great then and has been all through the years. My opinion is that things would go on as usual without the foreign gals but it would be nice to keep the variety around.