San Diego is also on the list. I should've put "The Valley" in general. Thanks for the comment.
Not sure where you're geographically located but San Diego isn't anywhere near anything that could be considered "The Valley".
I was thinking of San Jose :)
I'm a contractor who just quit my fulltime client (the 9-5 "job") to bootstrap my startup as well; I live in North County San Diego. I only have ~3 months in the bank, but with two part-time clients, I pay all my monthly bills, with the rest of my time going into my startup and I live a block from the beach in the middle of a coastal downtown area.
Life is good :) Take the plunge. PM me if you wind up moving down here, would love to get coffee.
Where's the PM button? I'd love to touch base we might have a bit in common.