> Now Adelaide...that's another matter!!!!   A planned city, with nice
straight
> roads planned on a grid - impossible to get lost there!!
>

The town where I went to university is also on a grid system and I thought
it was the easiest place in the world to navigate,  until I dated a young
man who said he was always lost.....I began to question his directional
abilities at that point because not only were the streets on a grid, the
east-west streets were numerical, and the north-south streets were
alphabetical!

And because the city was in the midst of a large agricultural area, the
major streets were generally a mile apart, based on the old section lines.
(A 'section' is one square mile or 640 acres.)  Even in the huge city where
I now live, the major streets in my suburbs are mostly one mile apart, again
because of the old section lines.  Where my house now sits was a rice field
less than 25 years ago.

Judy, waiting for the cold front in Houston
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