Agreed. Even worse is that, as the article says, there used to be a formal address system: >The explanation came from Geovanny Campos of Correos de Costa Rica,

Agreed. Even worse is that, as the article says, there used to be a formal address system: >The explanation came from Geovanny Campos of Correos de Costa Rica, the company that manages the country's postal service. As he told Luis Fernando, San José’s growth was characterized by disorder. As the city expanded without following a pattern of rectangular city blocks, the established street numbers stopped making sense. >Eventually, nobody used them. Good grief. That's a failed system; like South Africa's electrical system, something that worked 10-20-30 years in the past but no longer does, because people (speaking in the aggregate) don't care enough to/are no longer able to keep it running. I also found hadlock's and others' anecdotes enlightening. I'd vaguely had the idea that it was one of the small success stories of Latin America; all those Reddit TILs about how "Costa Rica abolished its army in the 1940s" and "Costa Rica last year ran 100% on renewable power for months". I am aware that Intel has a plant there. I know that Costa Rica supplies relatively few of the illegal aliens streaming across the US's southern border. Etc., etc. Welp. (Of course, that last fact implies that CR, despite its woes, is still better off than much of the rest of Latin America, which itself says something.)