Gidday all, >Is Smith Street really that long that it has over 1,358 houses in >it, or is your numbering system based on some other principle! > Some other principle ;-)) Say that Smith Street runs North-South, and 13th Avenue crosses it East-West. The house numbers between 13th and 14th Avenue would all be 13xx, odd numbers on one side of the street, even numbers on the opposite.
Wow, I've learnt something today! I had no idea you had such complicated (to a stranger) numbering systems. I really thought you just had very long streets. In Australia we just have ordinary numbers starting at 1 and going 'til the street ends, with odds on one side and evens on the other. An exception is a court (dead end street, usually quite short, with bowl shape at end for turning car around) which usually is just numbered 1-? starting at one corner and going around the court until you are back at the opposite corner. Mostly our streets are named as well, with relatively few "1st Avenue" type names. Some cities are laid out in a grid pattern, Adelaide being a good example, but others are a mess (we've already discussed the difficulties of navigating around Canberra's circles), and the radiating out from the centre that you talk of is not something used (in my experience anyway). We use the term "block" but it is applied to a general "going around the immediate corners/area" which is not necessarily a square/rectangle. When a new housing estate is developed, the powers that be try to be creative with their street names, so you often find a whole area with girls names, flora/fauna, animals etc. Actually that could be unoriginality and boredom instead. Here in South Africa the streets also seem to be ordinary numbering, although there is far greater use of "1st Avenue" type names. Using street names for posting mail is irrelevant in a lot of areas anyway as there are no letterboxes or street postal delivery in a lot of area, and in the areas that there is, it isn't reliable, so most people have post office boxes. Where I live if you don't have a post office box, you don't get any mail! Michelle Long an Aussie living in Richards Bay, South Africa wishing the postal service was better here so that I could join the secret pals To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
