kayfox

So, the question "why doesn't con X move to city Y". The answer is pretty simple, the con is run by people, put together by people who have to be near where the con is being held in order to do things like scout out the hotel, find vendors for stuff like theatre equipment rentals and the like. So there has to be a pretty large contingent of staff in the city the con is being held in, or a few very overworked "masters of everything." The solution to this problem for those who want a con in their own city is to get organized and put together a con, this will likely mean finding people who have run cons in your area or spending a lot of time on the phone with people from other cons. It can be done, but it has to be done carefully, because running a con is a very complicated matter with thousands of details that you never knew existed. As for "Vancouver sucks" it is the 3rd largest metro area in Canada, as well as being in the third largest province.