^ Then you start getting things like SE 110th Street Rd. and you better not forget the Rd. part or, as you say, you could end up with miles to go before you sleep.
And while I’m at it, I generally like grid systems until you find SE 5th St. has three houses, neither of which has the street address you’re looking for because that section of SE 5th St. is eight miles further south with, say, a big lake in between – but those two roads line up in the grid. Urg!
In some ways it’s worse in the U.S. The reason that the town that The Simpsons is set in is called Springfield is that there are so many of them in the U.S., and none of them particularly stands out as being the largest or the most well known. The Simpsons isn’t even the first American television show where the setting is a town called Springfield. There are also Springfields in various other countries:
^
It’s a helluva town
The schoolyard’s up
And the shopping mall’s down
The stray dogs go
To the animal pound! 
In New Jersey there are 5 or 6 towns named Washington, at least 3 Franklins and a few named Raritan. Also 2 Springfields.
They’ve now replaced that sign with a huge granite slab with the name carved into it. Try getting that into your VW van, you filthy hippies!
This sounds like a cruel joke by the original city planners.
I wonder if using latitude and longitude coordinates would help? For example the San Francisco house where my aunt and uncle lived was at these coordinates: 37.715387, -122.400638.
You can navigate to it with Waze or Google Maps. Just paste that in.
Back in the 1980’s, my mother lived on an un-named cul-de-sac in a lake community. Town asked the three residents to pick a name for the short street - two guys on either side went to a meeting my mom missed and picked ‘Larry Bird Drive’. Mom, who didn’t even know which side of a ball to bounce on the ground, wondered how they managed not to think of ‘Larry Bird Court’.
That’s hilarious!