A small town in Nova Scotia has run out of ideas for street names

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...so try getting directions to your house when you live in Porters Lake.. :D

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Can you imagine asking a cab .. take me to That street..''which street?.. no, That street.. '' what other street.. no not Other street.. that Street... :ROFLMAO:
 

When I first moved to Alligator Point, Florida all streets were named County Road 370, and there were no house numbers... You just had to tell people things like "third house on the left past the water tower".

First the county gave us what they called emergency numbers. One for each house, but not well tied to the streets. Then I think the local realtors brought pressure and we got real street names and numbers. I lived on Alligator Drive, as did about 75% of the people on Alligator Point.
hollydolly said:
Can you imagine asking a cab .. take me to That street.
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Kind of a who's on first thing.
 
Alligatorob said:
Then I think the local realtors brought pressure and we got real street names and numbers. I lived on Alligator Drive, as did about 75% of the people on Alligator Point.
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The realtors should have brought pressure to remove the Alligator from any of the names, especially the town.
 
MountainRa said:
We have street names like West North 4th Street. Drives me crazy.
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Utah has very organized, but quite boring street names. Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon settlers, established a center point in every county and streets are named out from that point, 100 (or 1st) north, south, east or west are the first streets at grid center. Some towns have their own grid. So we have addresses like 1550 West 300 South. The original street plans were all very evenly spaced grids. Modern developers have gotten more creative so now many of the newer streets have names and may not follow the grid.

The county I live in, Box Elder, is quite large, about 100 miles east to west. The center is on the south eastern side so addresses to the north and west get high. For example the Mormon Church in Park Valley sits at the intersection of 17,600 North and 54,000 West.

The good thing about it was that even before gps you could pretty easily find any address in the state. Even if you had never been in the area before, and without a map.
 
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I've found two towns that have the oddest streets, Grand Junction, Colorado and Ocala, Florida.

Grand Junction has things like 8 3/4 Street, 9 7/8 Street. Nobody could tell me why.

Ocala has the most confusing addresses. Like 4278 29th Street Avenue and off that will be 3253 29th Street Avenue Court. Quite often 29th Street Avenue won't be near 29th Street Avenue Court. What the heck? Before I had a GPS, I had one devil of a time finding addresses up there.
 
jujube said:
I've found two towns that have the oddest streets, Grand Junction, Colorado and Ocala, Florida.

Grand Junction has things like 8 3/4 Street, 9 7/8 Street. Nobody could tell me why.

Ocala has the most confusing addresses. Like 4278 29th Street Avenue and off that will be 3253 29th Street Avenue Court. Quite often 29th Street Avenue won't be near 29th Street Avenue Court. What the heck? Before I had a GPS, I had one devil of a time finding addresses up there.
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Edmonton in Canada has street names just like that. In fact, most of their streets are numerically named. The most frustrating part is that they have the same numbers for streets and avenues. Then there are the same numbers for east, west, north and south. It’s very frustrating. Thank goodness for gps.IMG_9573.jpeg
 
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