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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1666105" data-attributes="member: 15651">Excellent arguements Sigil and I have to agree with most of your reasoning.&nbsp;&nbsp; One thing I'll take issue with is your consideration of weather.&nbsp; Unless you are in the snowbelt along the Great Lakes, it is honestly unusual to have significant snowfall in late November in the Northeast.&nbsp; Yes it is cold, and raw and overall not the most pleasant climate, but I would not consider snow to be a major issue.My consideration of a second rotating location for GenCon was not whining about how far it is to drive, it was more a matter of spreading the exposure a convention brings, and making it easy for those who do not want to venture far from home for a major convention.&nbsp; I really cannot afford to even take off a couple of extra days to drive to Indy and back, plus the time for the convention itself.&nbsp; By rotating it, every so many years a GenCon might come close enough that people like myself who would not normally travel much distance to attend one might be able to make one.And as for East-coasters being &quot;self-centered&quot; its not really that we are self-centered, it is more a matter of perspective.&nbsp; Here in New England, and in general along much of the East Coast, things are so close together many are just are not used to the larger scale of the western part of the country.&nbsp; Those who have not experienced it have trouble comprehending it.&nbsp; I had no concept of it whatsover until I drove from New Hampshire to New Mexico one summer.&nbsp; [From the other perspective two people I knew from Utah came to vacation in New York and New England.&nbsp; One day they were going to drive from Vermont, across New Hampshire, over to Maine.&nbsp; They looked at a map and thought &quot;This will take all day!&quot; not realizing the scale of the map was so much smaller.&nbsp; Two hours later they see &quot;Welcome to Maine.&quot;&nbsp; They were shocked at how small the states are.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 1666105, member: 15651"] Excellent arguements Sigil and I have to agree with most of your reasoning. One thing I'll take issue with is your consideration of weather. Unless you are in the snowbelt along the Great Lakes, it is honestly unusual to have significant snowfall in late November in the Northeast. Yes it is cold, and raw and overall not the most pleasant climate, but I would not consider snow to be a major issue. My consideration of a second rotating location for GenCon was not whining about how far it is to drive, it was more a matter of spreading the exposure a convention brings, [b]and[/b] making it easy for those who do not want to venture far from home for a major convention. I really cannot afford to even take off a couple of extra days to drive to Indy and back, plus the time for the convention itself. By rotating it, every so many years a GenCon might come close enough that people like myself who would not normally travel much distance to attend one might be able to make one. And as for East-coasters being "self-centered" its not really that we are self-centered, it is more a matter of perspective. Here in New England, and in general along much of the East Coast, things are so close together many are just are not used to the larger scale of the western part of the country. Those who have not experienced it have trouble comprehending it. I had no concept of it whatsover until I drove from New Hampshire to New Mexico one summer. [From the other perspective two people I knew from Utah came to vacation in New York and New England. One day they were going to drive from Vermont, across New Hampshire, over to Maine. They looked at a map and thought "This will take all day!" not realizing the scale of the map was so much smaller. Two hours later they see "Welcome to Maine." They were shocked at how small the states are.] [/QUOTE]

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