My advice to you is to be patient, move back in and suck it up... but I'm impatient and act impulsively so... my advice will differ from my actions extremely. Your other two options suck, though. I'm sure that most of the people who post on a nerd forum can relate to the need for space and alone time... introvertedness runs rampant here so I'd rule out option 1 for me right away. Option 2 might be something I'd consider but personal safety in questionable neighborhoods is not something I'd recommend risking for a female.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I think having a space that can be my 'world' is really the most important thing for me... it kind of doesn't matter that much where it is, at least for now. I just need to know that when I don't feel too happy, I have a place I can go where it doesn't matter.
The neighbourhood in question isn't the worst area of the city, so it might not be so bad. Especially since bedsits/studio apartments there seem much cheaper and more available. I mean, I don't need much. I only need a small space, with a bathroom and a way for me to get the internet really
I've had 2 best friends, one since pre-school and one since high school. I don't even consider them friends anymore as much as family.
However, I'd be amiss to say that your significant other doesn't become your best friend the longer you stay together.
And no offense to Godzilla2000, but I'd like to see what her opinion is once she's been in a long standing relationship.
I have two best friends as well, who also feel like family. But (and i'd of course never tell the other one this), only one of them feels like a soul mate.
My female best friend i've known since we were 10. We have been in the same classes together most of our lives, lived in the same village. At first we kind of hated each other
and we were so competative and fiery, but we spent all our time together. Our friendship matured a lot obviously, and she very much feels like my sister. It's been kind of weird since she converted to Islam and got married a few years back, but she's still the same girl that falls about in fits of giggles with me everytime we see each other again
But we've always been friends connected by circumstances, and shared interests.
My male best friend on the other hand. Well I completely and utterly love him in an inexplicable way. He's gay, he's a year younger than me, and I have absolutely no sexual attraction/feelings for him at all. I'd say the closest thing I can imagine the way I feel about him is, would be if he were my twin brother.
We met through friends when I was in high school. We were both confused adolescents and became kind of dependant on each other. Did everything together. Talked about the world, the future, laughed so hard we cryed, cried so hard we laughed. Got wasted at a lot of parties together. Etc etc.
He took a very different route in life than me though. I finished my exams, I went to university, I got a degree and a decent job. He failed his exams, tried to stick it out at a few horrible min wage jobs, became a drug addict on pretty much everything you can imagine, was diagnosed with all sorts of mental disabilities, and is now living off the government.
And through all of that, we're still best friends. With him, it's the closest i've ever felt to another human being, including my family. I think that's something that even people that know us struggle to comprehend.
But he's my soul mate. It's kind of inexplicable.
Your 2 best friends... are they female?
I used to think that I could never truly be just friends with a female. I always thought that there would be that lingering thought of "hmm... I wonder what it would be like if we brought sex into this friendship". I'm usually a very shielded person so wanting to develop a further emotional relationship never really entered my mind, mostly just physical. But about 2 years ago I met a few attractive female friends who started out as people I flirted with but they became people I developed friendships with... and I didn't really think about wanting to have sex with them. It astounded me... I thought something was wrong with me at first. But then I realized that maybe some people were right and a man really could be friends with an attractive woman without ruining it with the burden of post-sex awkwardness.
Well there is a difference between thinking about what it'd be like if you had sex, and thinking about what it would be like if she was your girlfriend.
I mean, I think ALL guys consider option A on some level with all their attractive female friends
In fact, I will admit i've probably thought about all my male friends in that way.
And then she got a new kitten and the older cat reverted back to hating everybody. 
