You wrote that you are going to move in with your partner but that it won't help much, yet you also are writing that rent is the biggest problem you have. This

You wrote that you are going to move in with your partner but that it won't help much, yet you also are writing that rent is the biggest problem you have. This is a little confusing to me. If you don't want to go into more detail that's perfectly fine, but you aren't going to get much useful advice. The best I can say is this: The world is cruel, and society isn't really all that into freely giving people what they deserve. "Entitlement" is a fairly loaded word these days, so I'll just skip using it. It's not about what you deserve, it's what you can pay for. When I graduated and got my first real job, a bunch of old software engineers gave me a hard time about my fiscal habits. I met and married a wonderful woman and she gave me a hard time about my fiscal habits. I learned; I was pushed; I was pulled; I changed. And I never would have done it myself. We lived "cheaply" and had a high savings rate. We paid off credit cards, student loans, medical debt. All while renting. We eventually bought a place that was much cheaper than we could "afford", and eventually moved up to a nicer place. It's still not as nice as other people we know. If they care, they don't say anything to us about it. Whatever. Long ago I stopped thinking about what I deserve. What society owes me as a highly-compensated person. It's fine over on this side.