Sacramento is a town.
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Some people don't know this, and think it's a region.
For example, Yahoo! thinks that "Metropolitan Sacramento" goes all the way to Modesto, Benicia, Nevada City, and Lake Tahoe. Not!
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For a full list of neighborhoods, and a map, who better to turn to than the po-lice?
For a view from space, who better to turn to than NASA?
Sooner or later someone will mention that Sacto has more trees than anywhere else besides Paris
There is 150 years of history in town
In August 2002, Time magazine declared Sacramento the most diverse city in the nation
29% of people in the Sacto area speak something other than English, according to the short form 2001 census.
Sacramento has the third largest Hmong population in America (officially 20,000 but Hmong leaders say 35,000), after St. Paul and Fresno. According to a 10/13/08 Sacramento Bee article, Sacramento is the "Mien capital of the United States" with 6,000 lu Mien residents. There are 80,000 Ukranians living around Sacramento, many of them Evangelicals. There are 40,000 Sikhs living in the greater Sacramento Valley. Sacramento has 20,000 Jewish people, 20,000 Romanians, 16,000+ Vietnamese, 15,000 Iranians, and 3,400 African emigrants. Fatai Yusufu runs Yusol International Foods, a Nigerian grocery, "from a drafty warehouse on El Camino Avenue." Red Star international groceries, off of Florin, has manioc roots for sale.
The Sutter's Fort site is not the actual fort that John Sutter established, but it's still pretty cool. John Senior was against establishing the town of Sacramento, anyway - instead he tried to establish "Sutterville" with Lansford Hastings, the schemer whose book led the Donner Party astray. Sacramento was founded by John Jr.
Musn't forget the Gold Rush
The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento News & Review, or SNR
SNR hates the Bee so much, they created the SuckBee
The Sacramento Business Journal seems to both hate downtown and love it
Sacramento magazine
Sacramento magazine's 25 favorite Sacramentans
Capital Public Radio
Reviewers on epinions.com gave Sacramento an 86% approval rating. (?)
Yes, people DO commute from Sacramento to San Francisco (even the Bee wrote about it once)
There's the Casual Carpool, which goes as far as Vallejo/Suisun/Fairfield
rides.org has a vanpool site
But it just wouldn't be a government organization if it didn't compete directly with another government organization, so the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) also has a vanpool site
And there's always Amtrak, but try to never get on the long-haul trains. Their Capitol Corridor lines have their own site, timetables, fares, and culture
Within the bay area proper there's BART
Once upon a time Baylink used to go between Sac and SF
Sacramento RT (Regional Transit)
Folsom Stage Line - there, I said it
For some unkown reason, the UK version of Excite has a page on Sacramento dining
The Bee's report on Sacramento schools
Sacramento according to Infoplease
Housewright Roger Lathe loves the houses of Midtown
Metrolist lets you scan MLS info online
I love Sacto in the winter...