Ashland, OR: Small Town With Big Town Flare
7 May 2002 - 1:00pm
Micropolitans like Ashland, OR, offers urban compactness and conveneices without being a metropolitan center.
"Ashland is a perennial top performer in those exclamation-point-filled lists of Great Towns! to consider if you’re in the market for a new life....They’ve been dubbed 'micropolitan' towns, and they’re often way out of the way, places like Camden, Maine, Shelburne Falls, Mass., and Driggs, Idaho."
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