Once upon a time all you needed to do was to dye your hair yellow and get a pair of cheap sunglasses. Now you just need the sunglasses.
Congratulations on the career move and lifestyle change. California can be fun or a nightmare. YTou will decide which it is. Frank Lloyd Wright is noted as saying that if you titled the country on its side all the flakes and nuts would wind up in California. I lived in California for a while and loved it. Here in the east things are different -- not better or worse, just different. There are trade-offs between most areas, some things are better, others worse.
Then there's Cleveland*, where every other place else is better.
* = or Buffalo, Detroit, West Virginia, Arkansas, etc.