I had great luck with local psychics but it was all by sheer chance. There were 2 of them which were crazy good, the others were charlatans or just weren't very good readers. One of the things which made the good ones good though I think is because I only got a read every 6 months with them and a lot of their predictions actually had a chance to pass (the ones I read with weren't empaths, and they were psychic but they also used cards) . Most people get repeated readings and keep calling and calling others too and I wonder if that's part of the reason they're not considered so good?
The one psychic I used locally (I read with her twice) was so amazing but I went back one day to the shop she worked at and she was gone and retired and I had no way to find her.
The other lady was in another state and I can't even begin to tell you how psychic she is. She used to track lost kids down with the police force when she was younger because they hired her and she was that good. She retired and became a reader and she's in her seventies now and probably one of the best readers I've ever had. But she's retiring from reading too because she's getting very forgetful now last I talked to her and I think she now hates her work because people get on her nerves
I think if you look locally at some shops they will have readers and some are good for sure. The fairs I really don't like because you go and there's this line and these poor people reading look so tired like they're about to fall over lmao , I mean it's like they're totally drained and the reads I got were really lame and generic probably because there so tired, you know?