More and more people have been investing in Ashland homes in recent years, drawn as they are to the city’s enviable quality of life and its charming combination of small-town warmth and cosmopolitan sophistication. Located roughly midway between Portland to the north and San Francisco to the south, Ashland lies nestled in the lush, rolling landscape of Southern Oregon‘s Rogue Valley and is surrounded by the majestic peaks of the Cascade and Siskiyou Mountains.
It is a setting that many find hard to resist, as can be testified to by the last two decades’ gradual increase in population and number of Ashland home sales. Apart from the panoramic views that many Ashland homes enjoy, another major draw to homebuyers from outside the region is Ashland’s vibrant cultural scene.
While it is a relatively small community of just over 20,000 residents, Ashland is famous for being home to one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare festivals, the celebrated, Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It runs for eight and a half months every year and has put what is still very much a small town on the international cultural map.
The OSF is Ashland’s biggest attraction, but the Bard isn’t the only thing that the city is known for. Other popular events hosted here include the Oregon Chocolate Festival, the Rogue Valley Blues Festival, and the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Ashland is also the seat of Southern Oregon University, which has an enrollment of approximately 5,000 students.
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