Random Poll of the 31 Days Ago! (942)

[Kor]

I'll go with my home address, so...last option. My family's house was built there after there was already a number 1 house, and no one bothered to change this yet.

[kei]

Three digits.

[mangaluva]

Four digits including my flat number.

[Akonyl]

pretty much always 4.

[aly_angelflight]

The typical neighborhood only has 3 digits to any address around here. You have to live along one of the long, major roads to get to 4 digits.

But anyhow, 3 for me. ^^;

[MaitreDétective]

one

[ProfParanoia]

Kor has just proven he can ask questions about our addresses, and we'll answer them.

[Commi-Ninja]

I have four, but I know some houses in an area not far from mine have 5.

[Conia]

Three digits.

[Callid]

Two, used to be one. Though I can't really see how a street would get four, TBH, seeing as it'd need to run straight and uninterrupted for several kilometres (20 or so) through continuous settlement within one county. That'd pretty much only be possible in cities with a diameter of nearly 50 km (the longest uninterrupted streets in cities are always the old radial roads, which start at the city centre), which are quite rare :x

[aly_angelflight]

Two, used to be one. Though I can't really see how a street would get four, TBH, seeing as it'd need to run straight and uninterrupted for several kilometres (20 or so) through continuous settlement within one county. That'd pretty much only be possible in cities with a diameter of nearly 50 km (the longest uninterrupted streets in cities are always the old radial roads, which start at the city centre), which are quite rare :x

There are plenty of streets with 4-digit addresses that are so short that you could sprint down the entire street no problem. You just don't have any there.

[Akonyl]

in the US, number ranges are generally assigned to small sections that are based on the distance from the center of the nearest city (in more rural places, maybe just even a town), and then those ranges are used to assign house numbers. In pretty much all cases they'll be in order, but not necessarily sequential, especially in cases where empty space between houses may in the future have a house built in it, so that no old addresses need to change to keep things in order with a new house.

The whole "distance from the nearest city center" thing is probably because in cities that actually have street numbers (which increase in number from the city center), the addresssometimes includes the block number (so, 2250 Smith Street would be a house on Smith Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets), but I'm a bit fuzzy on that as I've never actually lived in the city.

[kei]

In my city is very common to see streets with four digits. In fact, there is at least one avenue with five.

[Callid]

in the US, number ranges are generally assigned to small sections that are based on the distance from the center of the nearest city (in more rural places, maybe just even a town), and then those ranges are used to assign house numbers. In pretty much all cases they'll be in order, but not necessarily sequential, especially in cases where empty space between houses may in the future have a house built in it, so that no old addresses need to change to keep things in order with a new house.

The whole "distance from the nearest city center" thing is probably because in cities that actually have street numbers (which increase in number from the city center), the addresssometimes includes the block number (so, 2250 Smith Street would be a house on Smith Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets), but I'm a bit fuzzy on that as I've never actually lived in the city.

Ah, OK, then that makes more sense.
Over here, we just count up, and if houses need to be inserted in between, they get letters (24a, 24b, etc.). Long streets aren't exactly common, though, and sometimes streets actually change names at a crossing (or rather, one street ends and another one begins straight across the crossing). Therefore, numbers with three digits are already rare, and four are basically unheard of. And of course, whenever a street leaves a county (with usually ~3-5km in diameter), it gets a new name and number anyway.