A good place - If you're married with 2.5 kids
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10/18/2007
I grew up in this area and even spent several years after college in Rochester. Have a family? Great place to be! BUT -- It's really not a great place to be for young singles - especially if you are coming from a large metro area, you will be really bored! There is virtually no night life (unless you consider about 200 sports bars and/or a ghetto 1980s-esque club out of 'Miami Vice' to be nightlife). A lot of people who relocate from warmer climates can't take the winters. Also, if you happen to be gay, just keep moving north to Minneapolis/St. Paul, because Rochester is VERY unwelcoming to the GLBT crowd. The residents themselves are pretty nice, but the city / Mayo Clinic (they're one in the same) won't allow liquor license to anyone planning to open a gay bar - anything that might be considered offensive to the patients is highly frowned upon! The local drag queens perform in a hotel basement conference/ball room (seriously) about once every two months. It's pretty sad.
Nicholas | Minneapolis, MN