First thing, don’t take any tax, life, career or any other type of advice from me serious. All I do is tell sea stories I say what I think I would do in similar situations.
If it was me, I’d get one tax season away from California in hope’s they would forget about me. I would also read the 18th comment in the following thread by @RC.Joe because it seemed like he did a lot of research & had a lot of links about beating taxes & living out of the US.