Oakland's renaissance is complete. Once a crime-ridden city, 'California's Brooklyn' began disowning its bad rap by luring San Francisco's priced-out artists across the bay. Great restaurants followed and the clincher is the arrival – on 28 March – of the first-ever direct British Airways flight out of Gatwick.
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