Slightly off-topic, but street names in the Twin Cities metro are broken. I live in a subdivision in which nearly every street has the same name, differentiate

Slightly off-topic, but street names in the Twin Cities metro are broken. I live in a subdivision in which nearly every street has the same name, differentiated only by the road's "last name." I.e., Maplecliff Drive, Maplecliff Circle (which is actually a cul-de-sac), Maplecliff Alcove (which isn't even a type of street), Maplecliff Curve, Maplecliff Way, Maplecliff Court... In Minneapolis, all the streets are numbered by their distance from the center of town, and the north-south thoroughfares are called Avenue, while the east-west roads are called Street. So if someone tells you they're waiting for you at the corner of 2nd and 4th, you have 8 potential intersections to check. Everywhere else in the cities (OK, that may be hyperbole) building addresses have something to do with intersecting streets. For example, 47 7th Avenue is going to be between 4th and 5th Streets, closer to 5th (and on the west side of the road). God help you if you try to apply that logic in St. Paul. Their numbers bear no relationship at all to their cross streets. Finally, while my Maplecliff example above evinces a certain laziness or lack of creativity on the part of the subdivider, I think the height of laziness has to go to the subdividers who don't even bother to come up with a whimsical base name for their streets, and just name them after nearby, already-existing roads. Especially when said existing roads are merely numbered roads. You'll get road names like 172nd Street Circle or 163rd Avenue Way. And yes, I did once see a 185 Street Lane Court. A friend from Arizona reports that in his city, NS roads are Avenues, and EW roads are Streets, but there was one road that cut diagonally through the city--so they called it a Stravenue. Abbreviated Stra, if I remember correctly.