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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1722059" data-attributes="member: 5122">I've been going to GenCon for 21 years, which includes 19 in Milwaukee.  The residents and businesses of Milwaukee were never anything less than enthusiastically friendly to me or to anyone I've heard from.  The wait staff in one little diner, the Olympic Cafe, remembered the names of those in my group from year to year.  Think about that ... we're five or six gamers they see for a few days every year, and they remembered our names.  (And no, they weren't cheating and looking at our badges.)  In fact, after the Olympic closed -- to make way for the expanded convention center -- a couple of the waitresses actually bought badges and visited the con, just to be able to see first-hand what had been going on all those years, and to say good-bye to people they only saw four or five days out of the year.  Say what you will about "business motive," but that's way above-and-beyond.I support the move from Milwaukee to Indianapolis, but not because of any unfriendliness.  It simply outgrew Milwaukee ... having to travel several miles back and forth to your hotel room every day renders an already exhausting four-day experience almost overwhelming.  In Indy, there's enough hotel space for everyone to be within a block of the convention center.  Indianapolis businesses have gone out of their way to be welcoming to us 20,000 geeks, but even so, Milwaukee still feels friendlier ... though I suspect that's largely a matter of familiarity, nostaligia, and -- dare I say it -- that cute Wisconsin dialect.</blockquote>

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