Totally agree with am not sure!
Be careful whose advice you listen to. Moving out on day one is a silly plan as, firstly, you have no idea about the building on offer. Move in and see it for yourself. Secondly, in the long term, taking the allowance is fraught with opportunities to go wrong. Anything can happen in this part of the world; it's not stable. Tying yourself to a rental (or mortgage) debt on the basis of a promise from the company to pay has a lot of risk. That it has worked well for a lot of the guys the last ten years or so is no indication of what is ahead in terms of both company policy and regional conditions.