I thought the original poster was asking if it was legal for the company to ask this - 'some countries have laws regulating some issues like what a company can ask for a job applicant' - yes they can there's only a few protected categories they can't ask you.

One of them was 'physical address'. I can't think what law someone would think would mean it was illegal to ask this.

It's not an attitude it was an answer to the question.