NY Offer Scenario

If someone were to receive a top-tier EB offer in New York, but decided in the process that they had zero desire to move to New York long-term (and also have zero desire to stick around in finance after couple years in IB), would it be asinine to turn down this offer? This is assuming they have an additional offer in an equal bank name-wise (think regional BB or EB) in their hometown.

I guess the whole narrative of New York being the finance end-all be-all is held in such high regard (for good reason; I know there are certain undeniable benefits) that it's tough to cut through the fog and determine if turning down a highly "prestigious" NY offer would be career suicide if the goal was to only do IB for a couple years in hometown and move on to a completely different non-finance field.

An alternate solution would be to intern junior summer in NY and then recruit full-time in regional city, but that seems a bit redundant if the latter offer is already there to begin with.

Anyone been in this circumstance before, or have similar experience?

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Go to NYC.

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