[speeder]

I had a bizarre issue with that, where I wanted to get married, and to get the marriage license I needed a permanent address that was mine, not my parents.

But to rent a place, several of them required me to have a family income that was only enough if I had my wife with me, but since we weren't married officially yet, it didn't count.

[ratww]

Yep. Another crazy example: in Germany you often need a registered address to open a bank account, which is often a requirement for renting an apartment in the first place. The government had to intervene and make a law in the end, although most banks still drag their feet.