So, you have a film degree in your possession, you’ve garnered experience and credibility working on numerous small productions and you feel that you are finally ready to make a name for yourself and establish a career in film; but where do you go? It is very likely that your first choice would be Hollywood, California because it is the self-proclaimed “entertainment capital of the world.” But depending on where you live and what your projected cost-of-living budget, coupled with troubling climatic data and some controversial standards and practices, Hollywood may not be the ideal place for you to establish a career in film. To fully understand why, you must first know how Hollywood became synonymous with the entertainment industry in the first…