I Disagree, i believe you can do fine from your home town, Were doing well enough in glasgow due to playing the right show, avoiding the rockers shows and support slots with bands that wont pull crowds. Our last show in glasgow was with This is colour, By my hands, Departures and Grader, Perfect bill that we could fit on with bands with a good pull, which will only benefit us. I think if you avoid over saturation of a city with average pulling shows, and only play shows you know will be relatively busy, then you'll do fine. i would never travel out of town to play first on a show that you didnt know was going to be busy, its just a waste of time, money and effort, where as if you wait to get on a good bill with a good amount of people, it doesn't matter if they like you straight away, because if you keep playing shows like that, eventually someone will,