Wow, you americans seem to have it cheap with memberships. Where I am, the smallest college gym charges £20 ($30) month and the nearest Golds charges £50 (75$). The golds gym has a pretty large membership base and does really well. My town seems to have 6 gyms at least, but the majority of them are 24/7 fitness gyms, 1 is an MMA gym and the other a college gym. If a large gym were to open and have fair sized fitness centre, with a large accomodation for free-weights, it would clean up. Its in my future plans to get a gym open one day!