It's a great time to be a bank customer—at least if you live in the right part of the country and have an eagle eye. Where those areas are is not simply answered. Banks that are offering new customers various sums up to $150 to open a checking account range from those in rural Oklahoma, Georgia, and Indiana, as well some of the big names engaged in turf wars in Manhattan, which is undergoing a branch building binge.
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