Over there you mentioned that you think that young people today are more reluctant to spend $160 for a membership, the cost inflated equivalent of the $75 that you paid at the door for your first Worldcon. I agree, but why did you go to your first Worldcon? How did you hear about it? What did you think would happen?
I know that I went to my first Worldcon because it was talked about in interesting terms by the local fans I hung out with. I spent the money (far too much, remember paying off credit card debt for a while) because one of them bought me the first installment of a membership for my birthday as a way to give me a kick in the pants to go. And it worked. I never went back because the job I had then would not let me go for that length of time and between that and the cost of jetting off to wherever it was (a huge factor for someone as poor as I am) it never became a priority.
For a time it seemed I might become more of a local fan. One who at least jetted off the Minicon every year, but that fell apart when I became unemployed in 2005. And I've become the sort of person who is less and less happy to travel at all. Plus very little money for the last three years. If a recession is when your neighbor is unemployed and you're worried I've bounced between recession and outright depression for the last three years. My own fault, but that's why I don't go. And probably never will given how expensive taking a week off work is, when I have work.
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I know that I went to my first Worldcon because it was talked about in interesting terms by the local fans I hung out with. I spent the money (far too much, remember paying off credit card debt for a while) because one of them bought me the first installment of a membership for my birthday as a way to give me a kick in the pants to go. And it worked. I never went back because the job I had then would not let me go for that length of time and between that and the cost of jetting off to wherever it was (a huge factor for someone as poor as I am) it never became a priority.
For a time it seemed I might become more of a local fan. One who at least jetted off the Minicon every year, but that fell apart when I became unemployed in 2005. And I've become the sort of person who is less and less happy to travel at all. Plus very little money for the last three years. If a recession is when your neighbor is unemployed and you're worried I've bounced between recession and outright depression for the last three years. My own fault, but that's why I don't go. And probably never will given how expensive taking a week off work is, when I have work.