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Would you agree to move into a flatshare with one or more people you had never met before, and arranged this with by email at a distance of two-thousand miles?

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Okay, let me try again with a little more context. I am spending three weeks in the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem starting in a month and a half, and have to find accommodation. Either I can stay in a hotel (which I'm not really considering), or I can rent a flat, or I can rent a place in a flatshare. Flatshares are $250–$400 per month, inc. Council Tax and bills (I think); one-bedroom flats and studios start at $650, also inclusive. (I will, of course, at the same time be paying the mortgage back on my flat back in Blighty.)

My question is: is it worth spending almost £9 a day for the privilege of not having to stay in a flatshare with one or more people I've never met before, and don't know what they're like, and have never corresponded with prior to flathunting on the Internet starting now.

I've pretty much decided that I am indeed going to go down this route; I was just interested to see what other people would say.

(OTOH there's another possibility come up of a flatshare in a flat with someone from the NNLS; even if I don't know them myself, the fact they've come on a recommendation from someone I do counts for something...)