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Fri 12 Dec 2007Online city guide outgrows its grassroots
WIRED:Davis, California, is a small university town with about 60,000 inhabitants. On the map, it sits a little too snugly to the much larger city of Sacramento, the capital of California, for anyone to take it entirely seriously as a city in its own right, but Davis does not care.
There are many such places in the United States and elsewhere: big enough to have a community of their own, but not enough numbers to attract the attention of the listing magazines or the major press companies.
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