[onewhippedpuppy]

While CA still has a strong aerospace presence it is in decline from a total employment standpoint and has been for at least a decade (much like Wichita btw). I have to think that working from home will only accelerate this trend as companies move to eliminate expensive office space and centralize physical locations in pro-business climates. One other strike against CA is that aerospace isn’t a conventional cluster, it’s distributed. LA, San Diego, and the desert all have a presence, which makes it tough to move between companies. Plus I’ve never known anyone who could make it for more than 2 years in Mojave. My son is also a junior and also interested in AE, I would push him more towards a growing area like DFW, Huntsville, or the FL space coast, where companies are growing their presence and the local/state government is aggressively incentivizing aerospace companies to relocate there.