Suck it up and move in with parents or suck it up and live in shittier neighborhoods or get a roommate and suck it up with the pros and cons of roomies.

Yeah welcome to the club lol but if the places you're looking at is near 2k you are kind of searching the wrong places to live. I can find a nice 2br, 1 ba, laundry and utilities in North jersey some of em in bergen. Probably multi family house though.