GF moving to East Coast

My girlfriend got a late cycle full ride opportunity to attend grad school on the East Coast at the top program in the country, if not the world, for what she wants to do long term. This is awesome and I am fully supportive of her pursuing it. The issue is that I am wrapping up grad school in Southern California with an MSRE this month and I had already started recruiting with the larger family offices in that my program provides a pipeline into.  I am in the last stages of recruiting with two of the largest family offices in my city as an asset management analyst. 

She wants to be in California long term, so my concern is that I don't want to shoot myself/us in the foot going to the East Coast and try to come back in three years since the CRE space has such inconsistent recruiting/localized. It seems like it would only be worth it to go out there for an institutional type role where the name will translate back to the West Coast. 

I want to build my career in California and I am 29 so I don't really want to take any more detours as well. 

Any advice or conversation appreciated. 

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How long is the program?

Could you partially work remotely, a week out of the month?  Maybe after you’ve proven yourself. 

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