Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 09, 2003 10:13 AM
At first glance, the whole Seattle area seems rife with street idiocy like this. However, it's really only apparent because, as a fairly young city, Greater Seattle is nicely laid out as one big grid, from the Sound to east of Redmond. As a result, you can look at a map of Seattle, and an address, and know where on the map to look for it, for the most part.
Take my old address: 18100 NE 95th Street (about two miles from MS). 18100 is 18100 across the whole map of Greater Seattle; same with NE 95th Street (but beware: NE 95th Street and SE 95 Street are miles and miles away from each other!)
So, where in Seattle, you have a (for example) 110th Street that stops and starts all over the place, sometimes only lasting for a block, in other cities you'd have the same layout--only each segment of street would have its own random name.
(No, I never worked at Microsoft, but I used to live across the block from the main campus, right beside the Nintendo of America building).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 09, 2003 10:13 AMTake my old address: 18100 NE 95th Street (about two miles from MS). 18100 is 18100 across the whole map of Greater Seattle; same with NE 95th Street (but beware: NE 95th Street and SE 95 Street are miles and miles away from each other!)
So, where in Seattle, you have a (for example) 110th Street that stops and starts all over the place, sometimes only lasting for a block, in other cities you'd have the same layout--only each segment of street would have its own random name.
(No, I never worked at Microsoft, but I used to live across the block from the main campus, right beside the Nintendo of America building).
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