I wish it was that easy. More than anything.
It can be.
I grew up in FL on the coast. I was attending a lame art college in Tampa and decided one day it was useless to me and I was going to Orlando to attend a better school that offered what I needed. I saved a year and moved to Orlando for school.
After I graduated there I was in a crappy job to make enough to survive and a classmate of mine said if we moved to SC his dad would give us an office in his building and pay for the software we would need to start our own studio.
So I picked up and moved there.
A year later we had made nothing and called it quits.
I moved back to Clearwater and got a crappy little apt in Dunedin. I was the poorest I have ever been in my life. At one point I was working at a friends Chinese restaurant to be able to at least eat every day.
I couldn't pay the rent so I was evicted. I had to do the worst thing in the world....move back in with my folks. I was 22...it was miserable. I got a job that paid enough to survive and a few months later I moved out.
My gf helped us get a computer so I was able to work on some stuff to try and convince a studio to give me a job.
Eventually that worked and I started working in my first real studio. I got fired because they decided to hire someone else that used to work there....I went to the place he had left.
A year later they fired me for not working late on my birthday!!
A friend in LA said the studio he was working at needed help on a feature. I talked to them, they offered me a 4 week job.
With $800 in my account and a few Visa gift cards I headed out west to pursue my dream of working on movies.
3 years later (now) I have a nice place, plenty of money in the bank and I am leading VFX feature film teams! I feel I took the right path, as horrible and difficult as it was I am now happy!
Change can be frightening....but the result can be good.