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Ramona has always had a certain self-reliant character. Tucked into the inland hills of San Diego County, it has grown in a way that feels different from the coast, different from the suburbs, and different from the planned communities that often define Southern California development. The town’s story is shaped by ranching, agriculture, small businesses, changing land use, and the steady pressure of growth that has reached even the places people once thought would remain q

Ramona has always had a certain self-reliant character. Tucked into the inland hills of San Diego County, it has grown in a way that feels different from the coast, different from the suburbs, and different from the planned communities that often define Southern California development. The town’s story is shaped by ranching, agriculture, small businesses, changing land use, and the steady pressure of growth that has reached even the places people once thought would remain q

Poway has always had a strong sense of itself. That is true even now, when the city sits comfortably within the orbit of greater San Diego, close enough to major corridors and shopping centers to feel thoroughly suburban, but still shaped by a landscape that refuses to disappear into concrete. The hills are still there. The open spaces still matter. On some streets, especially away from the busiest commercial stretches, you can still sense the older Poway, the one that was