I have yet to see a successful CI meet in a city anywhere. If anything the state that you live in needs to have a meet hosted. Such as Florida for example...If someone lives in Miami and the meet is in Orlando or Tampa which is in the middle of the state, thats 5 hours away. If the meet is in Georgia or another state, from Miami it would be over 10 hours to get to Georgia. It takes 7-8 hours from me to get to the capital of Florida.
The biggest problem is the committment of people to attend, or should I say the "uncommittment" of people going to attend. I've planned a Orlando meet and around 10-15 people showed. They're meets usually bring in a mimimum of 30 tegs. For anyone in the south going to a meet in Washington, D.C. or North Carolina, it's not happening.
If anything, the meets need to be smaller to get more activity of people to attend the meet. For example, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, etc could have a muti-state meet. A state like Florida or California can't because it's just too far. In Florida we could have a meet in the southern part of the state, or maybe the northern, but even that doesn't go as planned because people don't want to meet.