Eugene is located in the southern end of the Willamette Valley in the Pacific Northwest of the state of Oregon. Eugene is near the confluence of the Willamette and Mackenzie Rivers. The city has been described as a classic college town with a population that is comparable to a metropolitan area. It has enough space where you can bike across but can be large enough where they can offer numbers of establishments of music venues, art galleries, and various restaurants waiting to be discovered. It was deemed that Eugene has more names of working artists, musicians, writers, and others per capita compared to Portland. The key to the Eugene lifestyle is their outdoor recreation with its mountains for snowboarding, rivers to run, rocks to climb, and a vast ocean that is all within the city’s reach.