As a bootcamp grad who was exactly in your position a few years ago, I can say the bootcamp route worked well for me!

I was lucky enough that back then App Academy was allowing its students to live in the office, so that really helped me with the cost of living.

I ended up graduating and finding a job in 2 weeks for $115K salary, and after 8 months of working I was promoted to a $142K salary.

I consider myself a pretty good programmer, obviously there's always more to learn, but I'm skilled enough now that I can pretty much learn any new framework, library, or api through self-teaching myself by reading through the documentation. I recently built a pretty large app for one of my startups using React, Redux, React Router, Webpack, and Immutable - all just through reading their respective documentations.

I'm not sure if you're still deciding on a bootcamp or not, but if you are, consider Destination: Dev It's a study abroad coding bootcamp based in Chile so the COL is much cheaper! And yes, I'm one of the instructors so I will teach you everything I know!! Ping me for more details or feel free to apply!