What does location have to do with anything? Development and/or M&A is what it is anywhere you set up shop- either good at it or bad at it (which is a different discussion). If you don’t like sunny SoCal, feel free to move to the biotech sanctuary of Boston and enjoy your polar bomb.
the biotech hub in SoCal is called San Diego. The real biotech hub in Cali is the Bay. No company will keep amgen R&D. Aight a fucking hub.