Welcome to the Bay Area of California! Here you can find a varied urban area with great weather and a surprising amount to do. Oakland is a growing city with all different neighborhoods with their own unique identities. Each of these districts has great shopping and dining.
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If you love movies, Oakland is the place to go see them. Oakland has restored several theaters from the heyday of the silver screen, complete with big screens and amazing architecture. Oakland also has worthwhile cultural destinations such as the Oakland Museum and the African American Museum and Library. If you want to take some time to enjoy what has been called the best weather on earth, stop by Joaquin Miller Park, Lake Merritt, or visit the ever-popular Jack London Square.
Oakland and the East Bay area enjoys a wide mix of different people, from the business people drawn to the area due to the nearby corporate headquarters of Clorox and Kaiser Permanente, to the writers and actors who have called the area home, to the flourishing youthful counterculture seen in the skate park pictured above. Spend some time exploring Oakland. You'll be happy you did.
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