There were lots and lots of whores involved. And drugs.

Visiting a third-world shithole (such as Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx or Philadelphia) can be enjoyable, if you have money and they have whores and drugs. In Russia, there is an unending supply of sweet-faced, hard-as-nails 18 years olds with absolutely fantastic bodies, all willing to open up their rectums all night long for $200 and some meth.

In America, you might think the same would be possible. A few more years of Obamanomics and maybe it will be. But there are too many flabby, out-of-shape whores on the game in the U.S., even at 18.