The Seattle area (though not signifcant swaths of Seattle itself) are built on a cardinal grid, meaning you can get pretty much anywhere with just 1 turn, ignor

The Seattle area (though not signifcant swaths of Seattle itself) are built on a cardinal grid, meaning you can get pretty much anywhere with just 1 turn, ignoring dead end streets. It is pretty nice, it means getting lost around here is hard. Our addressing system is absurdly logical, first 2-3 digits of house address are the street #, then you have the cross street as the 2nd part of the address. (Named streets actually are also numbered on the grid, and you can see the real street # above the name sign!) This means you can give me an address and I: 1. Know the exact location 2. Can navigate there Again with a sad exception for named streets, you'll have to look up the # of the street first before you head out. Because everything is on a cardinal grid, you just head north/south and then east/west. The best part is, if you get lost, it is easy to re-orientate yourself! If you get wet and the water tastes salty, you went too far west! If you get wet and it is fresh water with a hint of sewage, you went too far east! If everyone around you gets really polite, you are way too far north and have ended up in Canada, and if you see gas station attendants pumping gas, you've gone too far south and have landed in Oregon. Easy peasy!