In your city, can you tell where an address is without ever having been there?

No, but it is the most common scenario everywhere in the UK. Even the famous new town Milton Keynes only has a grid system as used in so many US cities in the very centre.

What I am saying is that few, if any, places in the UK - and probably all of Europe - are laid out in a way that a logical system could be found for it. I was just using the place where I grew up as an example.

Yes, but mainly that’s because a) it’s a small county, and b) I have personally readdressed or confirmed almost every address in the towns and county.

(It’s cheating because I’m a mapper by profession.)

Does anyone know San Diego? There are a few series of streets there. The trees makes sense: they are in alphabetical order.

But the state series doesn’t make any sense. It’s not alphabetical, geographical, or any other kind of ical.

I have been told many times by many Japanese that the houses are numbered in the order in which they were built, regardless of location.

Now that I think about it, not sure what that implies about when houses are destroyed - by earthquake, fire, or war.