Well, Papi, some of the clubs are pretty strict about where members may live, and others have more generous interpretations of how close one must be. For instance -- I live about, oh, 2,500 miles from the GG meetings -- yet they accepted me. I don't attend meets at El Mirage more than once in a great while -- so I don't do any volunteer duties at meets there. I pay a different annual membership fee than do members that are close in. I think I'm an associate member (meaning I pay different and live a long ways away). Other clubs might accept distant members, but I'm not sure of which does and which doesn't.