There are only four tier-1 cities in the 🇺🇸: New York (finance) DC (government) San Francisco (tech) LA (media & entertainment) No other cities are power centers for aspirational talent. Sorry.

Based on replies, here are the people arguing for other cities: Austin (people who live in Austin) Boston (people who are REALLY upset about Trump's Harvard attack) Dallas/Houston (people who have only lived in TX) Miami (people who love money but don't love to work)

Someone just commented arguing for CLEVELAND. 🤣

To be clear, I am not arguing that no other cities matter. I'm from rural OH outside of Cincinnati and I loved it. There are talented people everywhere. But you don't become SecDef in Kansas City or an A-list actor in Jackson Hole. You can run a great HVAC biz anywhere, though.