As that trend continues, maid service will ultimately become a thing for the rich, as it is in the United States and Europe.

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"You can get room service, you can get maid service, there's a restaurant and a bar downstairs, there's even little cafes and coffee shops, " says Patel.

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Brazilian maid service is becoming professionalized, and that has pulled the rug out from the middle class that has come to depend on them to keep their house in order.

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Hoodwinked by Stead into thinking her daughter had gone into service as a maid, Mrs.

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Then he tried to call his maid, but an impersonal female voice informed him that the number he had dialled was not in service.

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