Most cities allow you to request an address change and, if there’s a valid reason, they’ll just change your address. Presto, no more address problems (except that you’d have to get everyone to update your new address, but a change of address form dropped off at your local post office should take care of any slipups that happen over the next 6 months or so).
Not too sure what I can change my address to. What ever address I choose would have to be in between my neighbors. There’s only one other possibility, but that’s also in the other town. (Our houses go up by 4 because all the houses were built on double width lots – a whopping 50 feet wide).
Of course, our neighborhood is full of oddities. There’s 88 between 98 and 110. There’s another street where all the house numbers are in the hundreds except for two houses: 24 and 26 which are located on the “odd” side of the street and in the wrong order. All the houses on that street go up as you go farther East. Here 24 is farther East than 26.
Some streets start with 1 and go up by 1s even between blocks. Others start out at 100 and each block starts the next 100. The numbering is a mess, but unless we want the town to renumber everybody, we’ll just keep it as it is.
In a few places where the border of the town runs down the street, some of the houses have two addresses: One for the postal address which is actually in the other town (zip code is the same on both streets), and one for the actual town it is in.
This is something in New Jersey we call boroughitis. Somehow, the laws in New Jersey made it too easy to split off other areas and form their own cities. Thus, we have over 600 towns, townships, boroughs, cities, and villages. Some are tiny. For example, the Township of Shrewsbury consists of an apartment complex. The Borough of Teterboro consists of 17 residents. It’s one of the reasons we have such corruption issues and our taxes are so high.