I saw a travelling low life b**tch scammer once and had a terrible experience.
I don't see out of towners at all (COVID has nothing to do with it). The reasons are:
Great women in our own lovely city.
The schedules are very hard to match. AND
Disagree with me if you want to but they are trying to maximize the money. Which, I suspect, rightly or wrongly, that they are really packing their scheds.
Most of them want advance deposits and that leaves me to my next point.
A bit of a trust issue as well.
With COVID, one has to be extra careful, but for me it is not even a factor because I don't see them anyways.