If you're self-motivated enough, just learn on your own. If you're not self-motivated enough, dip your toe into a community college or cheap programming course

If you're self-motivated enough, just learn on your own. If you're not self-motivated enough, dip your toe into a community college or cheap programming course. With programming, you can develop your personal network online (Reddit, Slack, irc, StackOverflow, etc) and odds are you'll meet a ton of people there that live in or near Seattle. It's a handy way to meet locals without having to drive back and forth across the Seattle metro area all of the time.