California will be too costly for me. I am a work-life balance person and I don't think I want to get into something where it means employer owns my hind. And a lower salary in California, if at all I have to go by popular understanding, won't be enough to save and live. Because I want to come back, I don't want to settle abroad. Anyway that is too far in the future. Thanks for the tip. Have friends in that state so will definitely visit.