11mo ago

"My house is on Fallingbrook!"

I just hope the house numbers aren't similar!

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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.
- What in the actual fuck
- And coming soon our new expansions: Archers Wood Street, Terrace, Boulevard, Crescent, Mews, Brow, Parkway, Place and Square.
- What in the ever living hell...
- 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.”

Check out Drive, Way, Cove, and Lane… creativity off the charts.

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.
  
  But no one gives half a street name when sharing their address
  
  I guess - although in this day and age with Google/Apple maps, it seems like it shouldn't be an issue really, as long as the recipient has said the full street name in the first place.
  Maybe it's just a geographic thing, but it's pretty common round my way to have this sort of thing. For example I live in ********* Terrace, but there's also ********* Avenue, ********* Drive and ********* Grove, and the overall neighbourhood is known as *********.
  And then nearby there's the ######## neighbourhood with ######## Drive, ######## Road, ######## Terrace, ######## Loan, ########Gardens, ######## Crescent, ######## Place, ######## Park and ######## Avenue! :-)
- 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”

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.
  
  Go home N 7th E St, you're drunk
  
  makes you wonder who designed this. R2-D2?
  
  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

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.
- At some point, it's just easier to rename the damn street, no? LOL
  
  It's a small street too, so I'm also wondering why they didn't rename it.

DoorDash must love constantly issuing refunds to neighborhoods like this.

Least idiotic suburban planning.

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.
- My work calls for me to log addresses and map them out a ton. I can tell you from experience that there can be an 1191 11th Ct, 1191, 11th Ave, and 1191 11th Dr all within one block. It's infuriating enough for me just mixing them up, I can't imagine driving around not realizing that the other two even exist would make it way more confusing.
- In my area, we have a grid pattern, so there is one intersection that is the 0/0 mark, and addresses all start from there. Each block is 100 addresses, so the first block North would be 0-99 North Main St, the next would be 100-199 North Main St, and so on. Some numbers are skipped, because I think the address can even be used to know the number of feet from the corner the property starts at.
  Now, if a street starts 6 blocks south of the 0 line, it's addresses start at 600 South Something Road. It takes some getting used to, but once you learn it, it's really useful to be able to get to a new place without directions.
  
  Some of that is similar in more rural areas here. Property addresses will often be the number of meters their driveway is from the start of the road.

This is extremely common in Calgary.
- I was thinking the same thing! Our packages are always getting delivered to a Rise, Place, etc

Doxxed
Gottem boys

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.
- 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?"
- "Just turn right on Miller, and you're there!". 😂

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.
- It’s a 200 story arcology, how could anyone miss it.

You need to add some street numbers. You can do this by walking around with street complete and entering data.
- This was google maps, and it was being used though my municipal traffic cam website, so it's quite a stripped down version of gmaps (not even store names show up 😂).

Working as a delivery driver in A Wrinkle in Time?

A few years ago I was driving in Atlanta and had to turn onto Peachtree from Peachtree, and then make another turn onto Peachtree. But I missed my turn (turned on Peachtree instead), so I had to go back around via Peachtree to Peachtree to Peachtree (but not Peachtree) to get where I was going.
Glad I didn't turn onto Peachtree, though. That street is one-way and I'd have to go all the way down to Peachtree to get back.

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