Which cities can be considered the best for an in-house counsel job? Yes, metropolitan cities is the answer but what about when we take into consideration the cost of living too?

I would say Hyderabad is the right balance between cost of living, decent lifestyle, job growth/ options.

If job growth is good in Hyderabad, any idea why the tier one firms never opened shop and/or stayed there yet? This has always surprised me. Is it because the nature of the work available there for firms can easily be performed remotely from, say, the Mumbai office?