Re: Did someone forget that the Northeast exists?

["M Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

 NY definitely makes it uncomfortable / expensive for conferences.  But NJ
has several conference centers that have easy access and no need to cross
the Hudson River.  For after hours entertainment, it's close enough to NY
City to be very accessible.

 I have yet to see NJ suggested as a possible venue location.

 -mark


> As far as COMMON is concerned, New York definitely did. Picture having to
> unload the equipment from the 18 wheelers coming from Rochester and put it
> onto shuttle trucks to bring it across the river from New Jersey.
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> Boston was also very expensive, both for labor crews and for hotel space.
> The conferences there had to be held either before or after baseball
> season.
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> Baltimore was OK, but the panhandlers were all over the place.
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> Buffalo isn't fancy enough for the event planners. Besides, you can't get
> there from here.
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> I don't think Philly has the right mix of meeting space and sleeping rooms
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> Pittsburgh? See Buffalo, unless one wants to fly on U.S. Scare, formerly
> known as Crashagheny
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> Cold,expensive,crowded and whatever else you can say
> about the northeast.
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> Nevada(Vegas) is pushing hard for any convention I have
> ever heard about.
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> Just about every town in america now has a "convention center"
> and will do practically anything to get the business.
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> I was kidding about the northeast, but I really suspect that
> the cities you mentioned have priced themselves out of the
> convention business several years ago.
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> Mike Cunningham wrote:
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> > Seems like all the major iSeries conferences have forgotten about us in
> > the Northeast (with limited travel budgets).  What's wrong with the New
> > York, Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Baltimore areas
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> > http://devcon.iseries400experts.com/
> http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=page&c=a0000716
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> > http://www.common.org/conferences/2007/annual/