I was always amazed at the street addresses in TV shows and movies made out in Hollywood. California really goes in big for ridiculously large house numbers like 23517 or 32889 and such. Must be a real mental test for small children trying to memorize their address.
Being from a more rational place (the East coast), I grew up with addresses like 19 and 52. Simple. Easy to remember. And cheap when you bought the numbers at the hardware store to put up on your house.
But numbers up in the tens of thousands? Give us a break. Even near Chicago, new developments way outside of downtown have actually volunteered to use the Chicago metropolitan numbering scheme so they end up with house numbers that START at like 21000-odd because they're 35 miles out. The next door town can have a normal numbering scheme, e.g. 22 or 128.
The East coast? Way less confusing.
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