@Hunt , you are maybe a little delusional if you think she is going to be leaving California anything soon. Sure, she could wind up back in New York some day. But her first job as a USC Screenwriting MFA is 99.99999% likely to be in California.
I’m imagining the dialogue in Traffic Court:
Q: Do you intend to live in California?
A: No, I’m just here for school. I plan to leave as soon as I graduate.
Q: What school? What degree?
A: USC MFA.
Q: MFA, really? In what?
A: Screenwriting.
Q. [Suppressing laughter]
You know how the song goes:
If everybody had a studio
Across the USA
Then everybody’d be screenwritin’
Like Californ-i-a
They’d all be wearing those baggies
Huarache sandals too . . . .