Quote Originally Posted by OMEGA_HACK View Post
Well why do people all join uldah? Because everyone has the mind set of "Uldah is the best place to be" (Airships and Anima beg to differ), honestly Uldah is fine to have as a merchant hub, but its the players that are combining merchant with everything else in this game.
This is why.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-How-to-Fix-It

There are myriad reasons why and they all self-reinforce each other.