Good luck paying rent/utilities in the UK, or proving a UK address, with a foreign (especially non-SEPA) bank account

I have been doing so for years, never had a problem.

You have not been proving your UK address with your account abroad. You may have used it for other purposes, but not that.

	▲	cdsghh 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have done that once too, just changed the account address to my UK address and printed a PDF statement. No problem whatsoever. But anyway, you can just get utilies and pay with foreign account. This gets you an utility bill.