Hey dude this might be the wrong direction, but oklahoma is like the second only by a little bit to california in that kinda market. I am also gettin into that market. I have already built and painted several trucks. I just moved to texas from oklahoma not on my own will. my dad sent me here but im goin back soon. but seriously i know alot of good places to go in oklahoma. reason i say this is because maybe for a guy just starting out living and bills might be pretty expensive for a while until you get setteled. It might be easier on your wallet to go to oklahoma and just as good an experience as far as building quality slammed trucks or lifted to the sky trucks. If your not sure about what im sayin then look in truckin, sport truck, street trucks, and look at the trucks from the last 5 years or so and youll see more oklahoma built trucks than anything. If you do go to oklahoma then go to Custom Concepts or Auto Trendz in oklahoma city. auto trends is in pleasures truck club which has had about 40 trucks in mags. that at bad. pleasuresonline.com is the site if your interested. sorry this is so long i just thought i might give some good advice to a fellow truck builder.