We ADORED Nashville on our recent trip there. Lovely architecture, great food, lots of cultural goodies and all round coolness.
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.
Scrappy - Oct 08, 2009 7:30:41 am PDT #3910 of 12706
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Zenkitty - Oct 08, 2009 7:32:46 am PDT #3911 of 12706
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Philly, Providence, or Nashville, all sound good to me. If we do Philly, I can make some good memories to overwrite the bad memories I have of it now! (Minor bad, not major bad.) Also, all of those are within a not-totally-unreasonable driving distance for me, so I wouldn't have to fuck around with airplanes.
mememe
Jessica - Oct 08, 2009 7:35:20 am PDT #3912 of 12706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nashville's not on the East Coast. Wouldn't it have to wait for the Central location?
I was going to argue for a more lenient definition of "East Coast," but then I checked a map and Nashville's practically on par with Chicago, longitude-wise.
JZ - Oct 08, 2009 7:44:25 am PDT #3913 of 12706
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I thought Boston had been considered before, and it turned out that it's just too damn popular--just between Harvard, Tufts, BU and MIT, there's stuff going on almost every weekend of the year, even in a down economy Boston-area hotels don't have much incentive to give the awesomecakes package deals we've been able to negotiate in most other cities (weirdly, the same problem as with Vegas, possibly the only thing Boston and Vegas have in common).
Or am I misremembering? Which I'd love to be, 'cause I adore Boston and Boston with Buffistas would be even better.
javachik - Oct 08, 2009 7:46:07 am PDT #3914 of 12706
Our wings are not tired.
Philly is not cheap, because of huge hotel taxes. But that doesn't mean it can't be done.
DavidS - Oct 08, 2009 7:46:44 am PDT #3915 of 12706
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
there's stuff going on almost every weekend of the year,
That was when F2F's coincided with graduation weeks. We've moved the dates over since then.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2009 7:46:45 am PDT #3916 of 12706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Are Philly taxes higher than SF?
javachik - Oct 08, 2009 7:47:30 am PDT #3917 of 12706
Our wings are not tired.
Jessica, they're similar. I don't have my receipts handy for the last time I was there, but I think it was like 18%-20% range.
ETA: Just looked it up:
recent 1.5% increase in the hotel lodging tax in Philadelphia that was enacted to help market and fund the expansion of the Convention Center. That brings the hotel tax to 15.5% in Philadelphia, with the state being 7%, city surcharge of 6% and county of 1%, plus the additional tax of 1.5%.
and San Francisco's hotel tax is 14%
Zenkitty - Oct 08, 2009 7:48:01 am PDT #3918 of 12706
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Nashville in my head is east coast, being Southeast, but in reality it is located more Central.
I'd still like Providence. I've never been there. Might be cheaper than Philly, too.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2009 7:52:38 am PDT #3919 of 12706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think it was like 18%-20% range
Yikes! I think SF was more like 14%, but that was a few years ago.
Anyone interested in storming Provincetown? Walkable, beaches, very Buffista-friendly culture. (Not sure about airports - I've only ever driven there.)