Can anyone list the current view on tiers for the following cities?
LA, NYC, Newport Beach, Boston, Seattle, Austin, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Diego

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In general regards to market opportunity:
1) NYC, SF, LA
2) Boston, Seattle
3) Austin, San Diego
4) San Antonio, Newport Beach

Definitely would be restructured if we're talking about social life though.

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Why not Chicago is in the list? So many big techs opening their offices here and it’s a consulting hub

Would move Newport Beach/Irvine to 3

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City tiers never made sense to me and they still don’t.

I’ve lived in and between HCOL and LCOL, in these various tiers. There is opportunity everywhere and while comp does vary, it’s not so much so that a “tier1” is necessarily a better place to live in or that you will build greater wealth.

Newport Beach is as much LA as Arlington is Dallas or San Jose is SF.

I’ve seen the tiers relative to salary but during recruitment of MBA’s in recent years, I’ve had discussions where graduates have this consturct of cities by tier.

San Fran, NYC, and LA are typically considered tier 1

Seattle, Boston, DC, Chicago and Miami are usually considered tier 2

Tier 3 can be a mix but is usually made up of smaller and more tech oriented cities like Austin and Nashville and then large cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Houston, Charlotte and Dallas.

Obviously the critera varies but you are seeing more graduate talent center in a handful of high cost but there remains a lot of opportunities for roles outside those especially previously engineering heavy cities like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, etc.

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