Optimizing for wealth accumulation, MM regional banks are better, change my view.

If your goal is to make as much money as you can, you’re better off living in a LCOL city like charlotte at a MM bank in a regional office than you are working at an elite boutique in NYC. Obviously this only applies to US as euro bankers hardly make as much as US corporate salaries.

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