Rochester, Minnesota - Where the Dalai Lama Gets His Medical Treatments.

With suggest a prestigious medical institution there is a lot of learning opportunities. Many school groups have their medical division there like the University of Minnesota. These 4-8 year tourists often continue residing in Rochester even after their college years. Starting families and growing the city.

There are special medical housing situations that allow you to rent an apartment that is easy to get to from the operating table and offer special features depending on your ailment. For example, if you get a hip replacement, you will be given a ground floor room so you don’t have to do stairs. If your cancer treatment is going to take only a few months, that is all the longer your lease will be.

Such an institution has international draw. In 2013 there was a special bill called the “Destination Medical Center” that allowed for easier visits from international visitors like the Dalai Lama of the King of Jordan.

The opportunities can be much more basic too. With such a thriving community you get things like great city parks, extensive bike paths that lead to Lanesboro or Whitewater State Park. A nature center originally created by the hospital. 

Rochester has many golf courses to support the wealthy tourists, doctors, nurses, administrators, medical devices salespeople, ect. So much so that 9 different courses are within the cities limits making it one of the highest golf course cities per capita. Now this is likely skewed because these golf courses and the community is supported so heavily on temporary visitors but still. This in itself then becomes another tourist destination for people pulling avid golfers from local communities and Minneapolis itself.