Hasta La Motion!

Hey.Hows it goin?Im new to this website and these forums. I am an animation and visual fx major at a school in the San Fransisco Bay Area (California) . In about one year from now, I will have my bachelors degree as well as all the experience that we all know is more important than that piece of paper..So anyway..I moved here from the upper East Coast for school in 09′. I love it here, but i can’t help but rack my brain about all the haunting stories I’m constantly told by mostly everyone i know about how hard it is to even legitimately get your foot in the door here and on my way to earning decent income. My school takes us through much of the pipeline starting with fine arts and concepting classes and then moving on to hard surface/organic modeling, texturing and lighting, compositing, animation, rigging, dynamics, motion capture, and a bit of scripting as well.Programs taught include Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, and Nuke, among a few other more slightly obscure ones) I know that the biggest vfx studios in the country are here, but i sometimes wonder if in some way it would be easier for me to get started back east. Does anyone know what the job market is like for any one of the trades listed that I’m learning on the east coast compared to the west? I work hard and still plan to try my hardest out here to get the best I can…but I can’t help but wonder about moving back east after i graduate sometimes..if only just to get started. I have an older buddy at school(i’m 22 btw) who tells me that the stuff we’re learning is more advanced than a lot of digital arts schools on the east, since we’re so well linked with faculty from pixar and others closeby and the curriculums here get revamped so often. Don’t get me wrong, I know theres excellent schools everywhere, but could somebody give me their two cents? I just hear so much about Bay Area and LA competition, it sometimes gets really unsettling.Especially for someone still getting their feet wet..
Thanks in advance,
Josh