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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 26316988, member: 59677&quot;]B*tch &amp; Moan - some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope.</p><p><br /></p><p>People complain that &quot;it&#039;s always Rosemont&quot; and &quot;Why doesn&#039;t the show travel to where the collectors live?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The reality is the ANA is not a prized convention. We have to go to sites that want us and those are mostly 2nd tier.</p><p><br /></p><p>The convention can&#039;t be in a site with sales tax on numismatic items nor PMs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The convention has to avoid convention centers that are expensive to operate in. For example at the Javits Center in New York you can&#039;t plug in your own power strip and you can&#039;t put down your own carpet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The geographic center of the US is South Dakota (albeit distorted by Alaska). The population average is in Missouri. And the median is on the Illinois/Indiana line - which tends to favor Midwest or East Coast locations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the last big West Coast show has recently shut down, and the attempted new show locations in the last decade are Tampa, Nashville, and St Louis...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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