I've had friends be deadlocked getting an apartment in UK/Ireland 1. To get an apartment you need a bank account 2. To have a bank account you need to identify

I've had friends be deadlocked getting an apartment in UK/Ireland 1. To get an apartment you need a bank account 2. To have a bank account you need to identify yourself 3. How do you do that? Provide them with a GAS BILL for your apartment - which you don't have. IIRC the deadlock in this case was solved by another friend loaning their bank account to bootstrap the system.