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House numbers with four/five digits when they're not necessary
This thread about house numbers over at Heapers' Hangout inspired the following topic.
Here in Connecticut, house numbers usually have only up to three digits. Many places have two digits or even just one digit. Our house, which is located in a residential neighborhood, has three digits. Basically what happens is that a road gets built and people start numbering from 1 on up, at reasonable distances. This makes sense.
Then in some places, such as New York City, you have over a hundred streets, and the avenues crossing them actually have more than 9 things on either side of the block between two streets. So between 112th and 113th streets, it makes sense to have things numbered like 11225, 11254, 11260, 11279, and so on. This makes sense too.
Then you get places like northern Virginia, where people use four-digit and five-digit address...even though no one numbers streets like that, and there aren't several hundred of anything on any street except maybe the longer major streets. So you have a tiny road that has like, ten buildings on it, but each of them are numbered between 3700 and 4000, for unknown reasons.
The strangest thing is that they do this for condos...and yet they STILL give their condos unit numbers (unless they're townhouses). They space numbers very closely--for example, you have 3886 and 3890 as consecutive addresses, and within them each building has well more than four units so they use something like 3886 John Smith Drive #101, 3886 John Smith Drive #102, ... 3886 John Smith Drive #304. That said, I can understand them doing this for the mailman's convenience, because they need to carry one batch of mail corresponding to just one address, and sort it only after they get inside the building to the mailboxes.
Comments
Yeah, this always did bug me, especially what you say in your third paragraph. But hey, at least it gives everything a nice distinct atmosphere compared to CT. For what that's worth.
Nah, I think that places in CT have more character. There's DEFINITELY more difference in character between 37 and 48 than between 10337 and 10348.