I left Calif a little more than a year ago. There is definitely life after “Cali,” and there are a number of great states that will gladly receive you as ,long as you don't try and bring the California attitude and thinking with you.
The sooner you can leave the better. A year from now, it will probably be more difficult. Most people in the Golden State are still trying to arrange the deck chair on the Titanic.
I'll be moving to Arizona - to probably the most conservative town left there (Prescott) - but even that once very conservative redoubt has been massively polluted by LIBERAL CALIFORNIANS fleeing the mess that THEY made here with their stupid voting habits. Now THEY have elected a liberal democrat to THAT congressional district.
California is indeed the Titanic - going down very fast now. But beware - liberal Californians are fleeing to any-town USA, likely a lot of them right where you live.