Matt01,
be mindful of the fact that people who are glued to their PC, blogging on the internet and this forum, probably represent less than 0.01% of the O/S gauge hobby. Most of the people in the hobby and at York are actually very nice, fun to talk with, and fun to do business with. You are going to find grumpy hateful people everywhere you go.
So, by all means you should go to the York show at least once or twice. I would categorize the York show as an experience instead of a train show. I personally like to do all the shows from Monday to Saturday. I've been to a lot of train shows and never seen one that could get within 10% of a comparison to York. Probably less than half the people on this thread are TCA members, and probably only half of them are Eastern Division members. So a lot of people squawking about something they have no control over or membership in.
