<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

My boyfriend and I have been together over a year and currently live in a 3 bedroom house with a roommate who I was living with before he moved in. Our roommate has the master while we have two bedrooms on the opposite end of the house. Everything is fine and goes smoothly, our roommate is hardly ever home but he has expressed to us that he will most likely be moving out when our lease is up on the 1st of November to move back to his home state. 

Now for our dilemma - my boyfriend starts Fire Academy next month which will take up his weekends and being a bartender this means he will make less money BUT he is a Veteran so he will receive money from the GI Bill while he is attending Fire Academy. Our rent is bit high being as that we have a 2500 sq ft. house in Southern California and it will not be possible to move with him having no days off for the next 9 months and our dog is a rottweiler so almost all places discriminate against her breed. This means we wish to stay. I think that while it will not be the most comfortable thing in the world financially (but totally doable) for the time being that we should live on our own because he's expressed he wants to get engaged within the next year and having a roommate while being an engaged couple seems a bit odd to me. He on the other hand wants to have a roommate and save money so that when we do get married we have more of a financial cushion. I totally understand where he is coming from but I don't know if having a roommate will allow us to enjoy a very exciting time in our lives. 

I would appreciate any advice and thoughts you have on this, thank you.
<bot>: My boyfriend and I currently have a roommate but he is  most likely moving out. We are now having a disagreement on if we should have a roommate or not seeing as how we will most likely be engaged in the next few months.