I moved form NYC to Seattle, attended a coding boot camp and moved from Shipping Director at a small eCommerce site and am now a Software Engineer at a Seattle

I moved form NYC to Seattle, attended a coding boot camp and moved from Shipping Director at a small eCommerce site and am now a Software Engineer at a Seattle area startup. I didn't have much going on career wise and had been interested in attending a coding school. I was going to college in the evenings but at that rate it would have taken way longer than I wanted it to, to be able to change careers. I made the off hand remark to my brother that the school I wanted go to was in Seattle and that would make it difficult to go. He told about a friend of his in Seattle who let me stay at his place and I was off to the races from there. I guess my advice would be it's not as hard as you would think to just move across the country and change jobs. I didn't have much tying me down however. I had a girlfriend (now wife) he was excited to move out of the city with me so that helped. No kids, no car, no house or anything like that so it was fairly easy to just pick up and go. TL;DR - You're not as locked in to your current lifestyle as you think.