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Another falsehood: * Street numbers are integers. A house near my university was numbered something like 3 1/2. It was between 3 and 5, and 4 was taken by a h
by kijin 13y ago
Another falsehood:
* Street numbers are integers.
A house near my university was numbered something like 3 1/2. It was between 3 and 5, and 4 was taken by a house on the other side of the street. I'm also sure I've seen houses with 1/4 and 3/4 in their numbers. Platform nine and three quarters doesn't need to be magical!
I once lived in a house that was numbered 50-2. A lot of U.S. websites wouldn't accept the hyphen. Fortunately, I could just truncate it to 50 because there were only a handful of houses with the same prefix and the postman knew where my family lived.
I also once lived at an address where the street number had the suffix "B".
- ams6110 13y agoThere are a lot of 1/2 addresses here. Usually happens when a house that was originally a single address has a room (or several) divided off and rented out as a separate dwelling. So that can become "320 1/2 S. Lincoln Ave" or whatever. Sometimes though, in the same situation, separate apartment numbers will be used on the orignal adddress. I'm not sure what drives this one way or the other.
- enjo 13y agoGrand Junction Colorado has all of it's streets numbered by how far away they are from the Utah border. Basically all of the numbered streets are a fraction of some kind.
- whatusername 13y agoAustralian blocks that have been sub-divided (Turned into some form of Duplex) will often have an A and a B. So you will have 17A Station St. I also lived on a street (~15 years ago -- without numbers. Small country town, the Postman knew who we were -- only 5 houses on the street)
- adamzochowski 13y agoA friend just moved to a house number 1 on the street. Left of him is the typical number 3. To the right, someone added duplex, which provides two units: 1A and 1B.