People will go, if you set it up.
Best place is at someone house.
I don't know how well a rented out place will work, as people usually like some place to sleep. Atleast that is what I find.
Boston is not far, and we have atleast 2 LANs a year, and it looks like 4 this year.
I drove down to stanford and back last week. Only took about 3h round trip. Super easy drive.