What side of the street do you live on, and is your address odd or even?

[Lionel Mandrake]

In my neighborhood, a house on the SOUTH side of the street has an EVEN number. A house on the NORTH side of the street has an ODD number. This is just for streets that run east-west.

Other places have the opposite rule. Most cities have one rule or the other. What is the rule where you live?

There's also a rule for north-south streets, but I forget which side is even and which is odd.

These rules tend to break down in neighborhoods where the streets wind around, or where they run every which way.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Lionel Mandrake!

What a coincidence!

My house also follows those rules!

:hi:

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. Maybe it's a west-coast thing.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. North = Even, South =Odd

Opposite of yours

[mopinko]

5. same in chicago

i'm odd.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

39. Umm, no, I read wrong

Delete

[haele]

3. We're on the left(if you follow the number sequence) or west side and

our house number is even.
The North sides of the north/west streets is considered on the left, they're also even.

Haele

[Lionel Mandrake]

15. I never thought about right and left.

But now that you mention it, my house is on the right (as the numbers increase) with even numbers.

[BarenakedLady]

4. Even, west side. (n/t)

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Odd--- on the North side of the street.

I am moving to an Odd on the South side of the street.

[Lionel Mandrake]

16. In the same city?

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Nope. A state 1400 miles away.

:)

[Ptah]

7. West side - Odd numbered street address

[ogneopasno]

8. Northwest side, odd number.

I live out in the country, though, on a highway that runs NE-SW.

[eugeneliberal]

9. North, even and out of order

We bought a house in the path of a new highway and moved it onto a vacant lot. The address on one side ends in 22 and the one on the other is 24, so they made us 20. We had problem neigbors for a while and between ambulances and police cars, it seemed we always had to direct someone to the right house at 3 am.

[Lionel Mandrake]

19. I bet that was fun

;-)

[Redstone]

11. Our street is utterly random. The house next door is 45, we're 49, and the house

on the other side of us is 57. The house across the street from us is 72.

No idea why.

Redstone

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. That's weird.

The explanation is probably lost in the mist of time.

[Chan790]

48. It's worse in the colonial/rural parts of the state of CT.

The house I grew up in was 3, the house across the street from us was 5. The barn on the lot next to us was 2. The field across from the barn...4. 6 was next to the field and 7 was on the other side of the barn. From there on up the street it was West odds, East evens. There was no correlation to the count between the houses; there could be 6 miles between 56 and 57 but 60 feet between 72 and 96. At least they managed to keep the numbers in order once you got away from the corner.

We lived on the corner and tried repeatedly to get our address changed to 1. The town said no because that would mess up the numbering schematic...what numbering schematic?! Some person assigned these numbers 175 years ago and we're stuck with them.

Just to recap...starting from the corner:

West side: 3, 2, 7, 11, 43...
East side: 5, 4, 6, 12, 22...

[Inchworm]

12. odd and north

:hi:

[Kali]

13. ready for a rant?

I live on a ranch that has been in the family for more than 120 years. Technically we are at the end of our 2 mile long dirt road. (I suppose you could conclude we are east side or south east end of it) This is the ONLY house on it. A few years ago the county implemented an emergency system, named all the streets and assigned house numbers. You had an option to request a name. We requested ______ Ranch Road. They said no it was already taken (WTF?) so we picked something else. Later on we found out they had assigned it to another nearby road that EVERYBODY knows as Johnson Road. In fact they kept half of Johnson Road as Johnson Road. The other half they named ________Ranch Road. Again: WTF??!!??

Finally, as I said above we are the ONLY house on this road - so what house number did they assign it? 1727. 1727 North, no less - even though you have to travel south to get here. :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :rant:

[Lionel Mandrake]

14. No one person could have done that.

It must have been a committee.

[Inchworm]

18. LoL

I'm not laughing at you but at the way that happened here.

I was away from home for about 15ish years only to come home and find out they named all the roads for 911. It's like they never asked real people what the roads were called.

We have entire mountains in the wrong place as well as things like windfall, knoll, hill, valley, and such.

What sucks is where I "work" I need to give people directions back into very backwoods places. I have to say things like, "were you here when the Windfall was Little Windfall but is now called Whinlin Ridge even though a few people called it that all along?"

:rofl:

Progress as promised

:hi:

[Critters2]

22. Rural Illinois has those wacky kinds of addresses.

I lived in the country when they got enhanced 911 and had to go to road addresses so emts could find places. Before that, my address was RR 1 Box 111. Then they went to this system that started numbering roads beginning in the southwest corner of a county, numbering all the roads, S-N and W-e. My address ending up being something like 1256 North County Road 1450 East. I moved just a few weeks later, so I never memorized the thing. But I did place at least one mail-order by phone using it. Getting the poor operator to understand what I meant was hell.

In Iowa, county roads had names, so the rural addresses looked just like town ones, except with more numerals. And in my county, the roads ran in alphabetical order from east to west. So, Taylor Road was followed by Union Road. Strangely sane for a government system.

[Lionel Mandrake]

25. Alphabetic streets are fun.

A nearby town has streets named Amethyst, Beryl, Carnelian, Diamond, Emerald.

[Critters2]

26. Very cool! Much more creative than numbers! nt

[kentauros]

43. I don't know about that...

Sometimes I have to wonder when the "3rd Street" sign for Galveston was made, if the person that made it had a sense of humor or was truly so dimwitted that they thought "3th" was right :rofl:

What's worse is that it was installed anyway and remained that way for years. I can't believe the City of Galveston was lacking so many funds that they could not have fixed that before it happened :crazy:

[HopeFor2006]

31. Odd and East

The streets in our town are named after states and run alphabetically. Very easy to find your way around. Of course if you're going from Louisiana to Texas you go west. But if you are going from Louisiana to Colorado you must go east. For some reason, my mother found this confusing.

[Lionel Mandrake]

36. It does seem slightly confusing.

In the usual orientation a map has North at the top, so West is to the left and East to the right. Alphabetic order seems most natural if A is to the left and Z to the right. So I would naively expect Colorado St. to be west of Louisiana St., and Texas St. to be east of Louisiana St.

Another possible source of confusion is that the states themselves are ordered from West to East. Thus (the State of) Colorado is west of Texas, which is west of Louisiana.

[Critters2]

20. Odd number, west side of the street. My office is on the north side, and has an even number. nt

[Hangingon]

21. Even house number, West side of the street.

[Lucian]

24. I live on this side of the street.

:D

[KitchenWitch]

27. South and West are odd here in MasterPlanistan.

[OrwellwasRight]

28. Odd number on west side of street.

Numbers get smaller as you drive south. That is, until you cross into the SW quadrant, at which point they start getting large again. It really freaks people out when they move here if they don't pay attention. We sent an intern out on an errand, and he went to the same address in 3 different quadrants before he found the right place. Not the brightest bulb in the box. :dunce:

[Lionel Mandrake]

29. That's fairly common, but

in most places the letter N or S is added to the name of the street to resolve the ambiguity.

For example, the numbers on N. Godzilla St. would get smaller as you drive south; then the name would change to S Godzilla St., where the numbers start increasing as you continue south.

[OrwellwasRight]

33. Oh we have that. Just a not very smart intern.

So for example, there might be a 1300 E Street SE, 1300 E Street NE, 1300 E Street NW and 1300 E Street SW. We gave him the address and quadrant, and he just ignored it. When he called the office lost, we told him again. He eventually got back to the office and blamed it on the cab driver. Hmmm.

[reyd reid reed]

30. I live on the west side of the street and we're even

I couldn't tell you if that's the norm around here or not, though.

:shrug:

[krispos42]

West side of a N/S street is odd.

At least on this street. However, my work is on the east side of a N/S street, and it's also odd.





When I lived in South Dakota, the west side of a N/S street and the north side of an E/W street were always odd.

[Lionel Mandrake]

34. Do you live and work in the same city?

I think most cities conform to one rule or the other for N/S streets, and likewise for E/W streets.

[krispos42]

35. Yup, I'm ¾ of a mile from my job

When I moved I said "Fuck commuting!"

:-)

[Lionel Mandrake]

37. Smart move.

[krispos42]

32. self-delete

whacked the enter button twice by mistake...

[Left Is Write]

38. We are on the east side of the street and have an even number.

Our street runs south from the nearest major cross street but then curves sharply five houses down.

[Common Sense Party]

40. South side, even number nt

[kentauros]

41. West side / Odd / 60-65' Elevation / 30-Lat by -95-Long

:P
(don't worry about the Lat/Longs as the numbers give way too wide an area to pinpoint anything ;) )

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. North=even, South=odd

Though they really aren't all that odd... :D

[britpopper]

44. North is even and South is odd...

...and West is even and East is odd...and just for the record I am a West side evener...

[kedrys]

45. Odd, and ostensibly north

I say "ostensibly" because all the maps of Montreal are turned 45 degrees clockwise. It could be west. West-ish. Northwest.

[Lionel Mandrake]

That would confuse me.

I find it difficult to read a map if up is anything other than north.

[kedrys]

49. Many's the time when I got completely turned around

coming out of a metro station... :rofl:

Same with buses. For example, the bus that stops in front of my apartment building is the "north" route going west, and the "south" route going east. With east and west being understood as being -ish.

Besides, this close to the north pole, my internal compass is all confuffled. :P

[Lionel Mandrake]

50. Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if

1. maps were NOT rotated 45 degrees, and

2. directions were given as NW, NE, SE, and SW

(or the equivalent in French)?

[kedrys]

53. Yes, but that would be cheating

The maps are rotated to keep the area required for their display as small as possible. It kind of makes sense once you get used to it, but you don't really get a heads-up - it's up to you to figure it out for yourself. If you ask, though, everyone is very helpful and very nice about it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

46. end of the road. odd. north side.

[Iggo]

47. South side, Even. (n/t)

[1Hippiechick]

51. Sunny side of the street...lol...couldn't resist. n/t

[Lionel Mandrake]

52. except in stormy weather

heh heh.