Serious question: Why do you need to remind yourself where north is in your house? Is this important somehow?
Just a curious European here who thinks about cardinal directions about once a year…
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RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Our house is on a slanty road and I’ve never lived on one before, my mind rejects it. The CORNERS of the house point in cardinal directions. It’s because we are near a river, some of the streets in my neighborhood follow its course, which right here runs southwest.
I just have to stop and think every time. Because I have only stayed on N-S or E-W roads my mind thinks our walls ought to be along those lines. I have to point at the corner and say NORTH out loud more often than you’d think.
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am not good with left and right, mostly orient myself in the world using north, south, east, west and it is oddly disorienting to be on the diagonal road, my mind keeps wanting to think of it as a north-south road. Until I can FEEL it I keep saying it. The corners of the house are the compass points. My work office right now also is set diagonally like that!
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Thanks for the explanation!
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You would not thrive in one of our small towns.
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TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eh, it’s not the fact that it’s not on a grid layout. It’s the fact that it is mostly on a grid layout.
Hünsborn looks lovely and organically developed in a hilly region.
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
May I ask a question about German addresses? Here, they go up and up as you move out from the center of town - we have a zero/zero, so to speak, at one corner, and if you live at 100 N, you are one block north of center. So if you are 100 blocks north of center you live at 10000. I lived at 1500 E on 15th St I’d be 15 blocks away in two directions from that central point.
Our German addresses are always like 6, never a big number. How?
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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I have marked all homes that belong to one street in one color. The address is Town, Road, House number. So, Hünsborn, Steimelstraße 32, for example.
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But are none of the streets long enough to end up with a 1867, or whatever?
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Most American cities use a distance or block system.
Most European cities use the odd/even system. Each plot increase by two on either side, so one side of the road has 1,3,5… and the other has 2,4,6…
If a plot is later subdivided or more housses are built on a plot, it’s new addresses will get post-fixed letters a,b,c,d…
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Canada works this way too, interestingly enough.
SolSerkonos@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The town where I work doesn’t have blocks, it’s just a fucking mess. Which is annoying on account of I deliver mail and knowing where I am is important.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Ahh yes the good old days, when there was no urban planning, and empty land to develop on was always available because a section of town would just burn down.
/s, although it’s gone to far the other way at times.