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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7678164" data-attributes="member: 4937">1000 miles is about a 20 hour drive, and as such once you move out to about 1000 miles everything is roughly as close to everything else because it's easier and often cheaper to just fly.  A circle corresponding to a 5 hour drive is more realistic, because 5 hours is about what you can do leaving in the evening and arriving by bed time or leaving in the morning and still having half-day for activities.   Also, a 5 hour drive can be done basically without stops in a single stretch.  If the drive is longer than 5 hours, you have to start factoring in time for meal and bathroom breaks and that adds to the difficulty of the drive.  It's not the 1000 mile circle around Indy that is impressive.  It's the 250-300 mile circle.  And even more important to that circle is that it's not really served by an other major Con (unless you count Origins, which sadly I don't think you can) - most of which are clustered around the edges of the country with awful 250-300 mile circles: Atlanta, San Diego, Seattle would be prime examples.   Boston and NY serve the NE metroplex well, but that's about it.   Geography just demands a major convention somewhere in the Midwest and Indy and Chicago are the only real alternatives.  (Chicago is better for Milwaukee and Minneapolis.   Indy is better for Nashville and Pittsburgh.)</blockquote>