Still looking for more? Try one of our destination guides to Oakland. The closest well-known suburbanite-inflated city to San Francisco, Oakland is the northern-half-of-California's humblest, yet richest-asseted metropolitan port center. Sure that may be a bit confusing, and it may even sound somewhat preposterous to some, but if you give it hard enough look, the truth of those terms emerges in mysterious (Shall we say delightful as well?) ways. As long as we're daring to commend Oakland for its triumph on the Eastern US stage and it's subtlety, why not put a few more assertions to work? Though the effects hardly stand out a...more