I just hope the house numbers aren't similar!
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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I wonder if developers do this out of spite.
All it does is make it to where there is a HIGH chance for packages and mail to be misdelivered. Nobody wants this... whoever was the developer needs to have someone else do it if they are that lazy.
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What in the ever living hell...
What in the actual fuck
And coming soon our new expansions: Archers Wood Street, Terrace, Boulevard, Crescent, Mews, Brow, Parkway, Place and Square.
Funny that Archers Wood happens to resemble a penis.
That planner knew what they were doing
Everything reminds you of him.
Person ordering pizza: "My house is definitely on Fallingbrook Dr."
Narrator: it was not.
was it on “Fallingbrook Dr” or was it on “Fallingbrook Dr Fallingbrook Dr”
Dr. Fallingbrook Dr
“On the corner of Fallingbrook and Fallingbrook. Not that corner, the other one.”
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Check out Drive, Way, Cove, and Lane… creativity off the charts.
Trying to decide if this is better or worse than countries that don't use street names. On one hand there's no confusion, but on the other the addresses get pretty long.
No confusion you say
N 6th E St
E 6th N St
Yeah, not a fan.
That intersection looks awful also. E 8th N is right there. Imagine trying to follow directions:
"Go South on N 6th St E and as soon as you pass E 8th N turn west on E 6th St N."
Go home N 7th E St, you're drunk
Even still, at least you have a chance of finding the street if you drive around enough. I have no fucking clue how anyone found anything before smartphones when street signs just don't exist. Imagine living at this random little street and trying to give directions to get there
So, I'm old enough to have driven in that forgotten time before smartphones. A lot of directions were based on landmarks. Like...
Go down the street until you see the house with the big tree with a swing in it. Take the second left after that and follow until you get to the corner where the Stop and Go used to be (it's a 7-11 now). If you hit the highway you went too far.
Basically if you couldn't read a map well, you got lost a lot. That and you could pull into any gas station or even better a pizza place and ask them for directions.
Isn't the problem here just that whoever is speaking in OP's title has failed to say Road, Drive, Avenue, etc? As long as they do that there shouldn't be any problem with the streets having similar first parts of their names.
Yes, but I can see situations where someone who isn't aware that there are a dozen Fallingbrooks might see the first one and assume the person gave them the wrong street type.
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No problem as long as everyone’s memory is perfect. If I lived there I’m sure people would get it wrong or get confused very frequently. I definitely have people I know whose street name I remember, but can’t recall for certain if it is “st” or “rd” or “dr”
DoorDash must love constantly issuing refunds to neighborhoods like this.
Reminds me of this street sign I saw:
(sorry for the Instagram filter - the photo is from 2011 when image filters were cool, and I don't have the original photo any more)
Looks like the clarification sign was removed at some point:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.7452259,144.977352,3a,16.9y,72.49h,91.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sKngpbnjxY--DdIjfemgWBQ!2e0!5s20091101T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.7452245,144.9774323,3a,22.4y,53.09h,100.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sB6JhYGhT8C1hpozhTfaCxA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
I live on "St." and have all of the contact info for the neighbors at "Pl." It's interesting how often we are in contact regarding mail, packages, food deliveries, etc.
Least idiotic suburban planning.
This is extremely common in Calgary.
I was thinking the same thing! Our packages are always getting delivered to a Rise, Place, etc
Exactly what you expect from those worthless cul-de-sac planners.
Genuine question - why would the house numbers be different?
In urban areas, I'm used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along. Usually odds and evens are on the opposite sides of the street. So the house on the corner will be 1, the house opposite it will be 2, the house next to 1 will be 3, and so on.
Each street starts the numbers again.
Is this not the case where you are?
why would the house numbers be different?
To make up for the similar street names, of course. The start number of a series of street addresses is a totally arbitrary choice afaik, especially when there's a chance the street might grow in either direction in the future.
In urban areas, I’m used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along.
Yes, this is a thing, but not always.
In my own subdivision all the residential streets start with the same letter, and the housing numbers are in the hundreds (300, 400, 500, etc.), even though the streets are short. None of them start at 1, or even 10, or even 100! ... there's no rhyme or reason, but it does cause confusion when you have several "630" house numbers all in the same area but on different streets that are slightly different.
In my town the numbers jump by random amounts by house. I'm 570, my neighbor to the right is 574 the neighbor to the left is 590. There's about 6' between houses.
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My hometown has an intersection of Miller Ave and Miller Ave.
That's just the road continuing in a weird way.
Try this one, Seyton Dr. intersecting with Seyton Dr.
In San Francisco, 15th St changes into 8th St before intersecting with 16th.
In Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the streets King and Weber intersect 3 times.
Shit like that blew my mind first time I really travelled outside of Tulsa, OK. If you're not too bright, it might take me 20-minutes to explain the whole grid. ONE page of instructions will land you anywhere you want to go. Numbers crossed by names. Even the numbers crossed by numbers make sense.
Clearly marked signs, everywhere. A quick glance will tell you which direction you're travelling. On a side street 1 block west of Harvard? Yeah, Marion runs all the way through town, and it's always 1 block west of Harvard.
Travelling doing Y2K updates, "Fuck you mean the corner of Green and Grass?! How the hell am I supposed to know where that it?"
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Reminds be of living in and near Atlanta GA and trying to find Peachtree.
The problem with Atlanta is that it's an hour from Atlanta, anywhere in Atlanta.
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You need to add some street numbers. You can do this by walking around with street complete and entering data.
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