Not recommended. Native Californian here! Go for a vacation, lots of fun stuff to do! While you're there, drive through ALL the neighborhoods, well not the ones controlled by gangs.

Look into places to live. View some apartments in your price range. Walk the streets a bit in SF. Check out how poorly tens of thousands of unhoused people are treated.

Drive some freeways during rush hour - from about 4 am to 10 pm. Imagine that to commute to work, you have to live hour(s) away from your job. That's to find a place you can barely afford.

Check out the schools - chain link fences and police guards.

Of course all of California is not like that. But go into it with your eyes open!