VNV == Has it spot on target! Agreed 10000%. Listen to him. I cannot agree more.
ndfb> If you can get out to smaller towns you can do much better. Don't expect to impress anyone that you're an American if your going to stay the entire time in Kiev. It is fun up to the point they ask how much money you make and then drain your wallet for you. Start finding all the small towns where there are 100's of cute girls in the agencies. That's as good advice as your going to get. And make sure to write them before you come, so they will be getting excited to see you.
bassuk> Yeah, I wouldn't have put it that hardcore, but its right on target too. They do indeed want the rich local young handsome guy and he knows it. He can wine and dine them drop em and go to the next young hot thing like butter.
A foreigner is just that... someone foreign. There is a stigma for a girl to join an agency in the first place, because it shows to everyone she had no luck with local men. Ask any agency representative and if they are ethical, they will nod in agreement. It's the scammer types that lead westerners to still believe the trip that all local Ukraine men are drunks, unemployed and abusers.
It's also why pretty girls who landed a man, still have to stay beautiful to compete with the younger models eyeing their man.
I hate arguing with people that always throw nostalgia information at newbies. Kiev and Odessa are nothing like they used to be just a few years ago. And finally... Thank God some of you guys with real information finally joined this forum to teach these new guys how not to come home so disappointed, because they believed the hype.