Cotati

Cotati is the hexagon. Literally - the downtown plaza is one of two six-sided plazas in the United States, which is the kind of trivia that fits a town happy to be a footnote between Rohnert Park's strip malls and Petaluma's chicken-and-cocktails revival. La Plaza Park hosts the Cotati Accordion Festival every August, which tells you everything about the demographic: aging hippies, SSU adjuncts, and the occasional Bay Area refugee priced out of Sebastopol. Dating here means Oliver's Market parking lots, draft beer at Tradewinds, and the realization that your date probably knows your date's ex. Small in the way that small actually means.