@talbotgrimes @mint not sure where you live but a studio shouldn't cost more than 1400 a month. I don't have much good advice, when I was in my early 20s I fucked off and moved into a real bad living situation on the outskirts of the local college with my gf where I shacked up with her essentially illegally in a 20x20 room and shared a bathroom and kitchen with the 11 other rooms on the same floor for $300 a month. Two fatalities there during my stay, one was a heroin overdose and the other was a guy getting stabbed by his brother over cocaine.

It was still better than living with parents I guess.