Future National Locations - Same Old Story

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by 55koufax

WILL NEVER HAPPEN until the state figures this out. If two of the largest tourist areas in the state (SF and SM) are this unsafe, why would any major convention come here?

According to FBI crime statistics assembled and analyzed by Safewise, a website for safety consultation, Santa Monica is one of the least safe cities in California.

This report was released on March 8, along with reports for many other states, which uses the data of the numbers of violent and property crimes that were reported by cities and towns to the FBI and computes the rates of crimes per 1000 residents in each municipal area.

Santa Monica’s rate is six violent crimes and 42.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents. This places the city at number 224 in the list of 230 municipalities. This places Santa Monica just below San Francisco. The only other cities that have a higher average rate are Compton at 225, Richmond at 226, Stockton at 227, and Oakland at 230, which are all in Northern California. In Southern California, Compton is at 225 and San Bernardino is at 229.

Umm, might want to open an atlas. Santa Monica is in a different county than Anaheim and 42 miles away. You are doing the equivalent of citing crime stats from Baltimore to prove a point about Washington DC (actually, they are closer). Anaheim's crime stats are right about average with the rest of the country. Atlantic City's crime rate is higher than most of the country and it has one of the highest murder rates. So we have that going for us this summer, which is nice.

We won't have a west coast show because none of the dealers based in the east and who have the most influence on the show's organizers want to hump their stuff over the Rockies and through Death Valley in July in the family minivan.

[Lobo Aullando]

It's a self-sustaining feedback loop.

Did I read something about not missing shows being a way of keeping one's place year after year? If I'm not mis-remembering that detail, then it seems like they could loosen those requirements. I mean, they're fond of bragging that the next year has already sold out during the present year's show.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

We won't have a west coast show because none of the dealers based in the east and who have the most influence on the show's organizers want to hump their stuff over the Rockies and through Death Valley in July in the family minivan.