If you move, tuition would be more expensive because you wouldnt be a resident of your new state. So you would have to wait anyway? I thought your current state was among the best for educating its residents. It sounds like you are in your thirties? You have your whole life ahead of you still. My pdoc only recently - like in the past 5 years? - completed his education and started working on his own, and he is turning 50. Just do it