Genuine question - why would the house numbers be different?
In urban areas, I’m used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along. Usually odds and evens are on the opposite sides of the street. So the house on the corner will be 1, the house opposite it will be 2, the house next to 1 will be 3, and so on.
To make up for the similar street names, of course. The start number of a series of street addresses is a totally arbitrary choice afaik, especially when there’s a chance the street might grow in either direction in the future.
In urban areas, I’m used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along.
Yes, this is a thing, but not always.
In my own subdivision all the residential streets start with the same letter, and the housing numbers are in the hundreds (300, 400, 500, etc.), even though the streets are short. None of them start at 1, or even 10, or even 100! … there’s no rhyme or reason, but it does cause confusion when you have several “630” house numbers all in the same area but on different streets that are slightly different.
Genuine question - why would the house numbers be different?
In urban areas, I’m used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along. Usually odds and evens are on the opposite sides of the street. So the house on the corner will be 1, the house opposite it will be 2, the house next to 1 will be 3, and so on.
Each street starts the numbers again.
Is this not the case where you are?
To make up for the similar street names, of course. The start number of a series of street addresses is a totally arbitrary choice afaik, especially when there’s a chance the street might grow in either direction in the future.
Yes, this is a thing, but not always.
In my own subdivision all the residential streets start with the same letter, and the housing numbers are in the hundreds (300, 400, 500, etc.), even though the streets are short. None of them start at 1, or even 10, or even 100! … there’s no rhyme or reason, but it does cause confusion when you have several “630” house numbers all in the same area but on different streets that are slightly different.
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