I just hope the house numbers aren’t similar!

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    9 months ago

    Yes, but I can see situations where someone who isn’t aware that there are a dozen Fallingbrooks might see the first one and assume the person gave them the wrong street type.

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        9 months ago

        I buy a lot stuff on buy and sell websites, so I’m picking up at people’s homes quite often.

        You’d be surprised how many people give out the wrong address. Like saying road instead of street, or not saying that their home is the north section of that street.

        In an area where all streets are named similarly, it causes confusion. Even delivery drivers, a.k.a professional address finders, can get messed up.

        Even when someone says “123 john street” and you don’t realize there’s a john street in every municipality around you, you’re basically guessing unless you caught this missing detail. 😂

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      9 months ago

      I guess - although in this day and age with Google/Apple maps, it seems like it shouldn’t be an issue really, as long as the recipient has said the full street name in the first place.

      Maybe it’s just a geographic thing, but it’s pretty common round my way to have this sort of thing. For example I live in ********* Terrace, but there’s also ********* Avenue, ********* Drive and ********* Grove, and the overall neighbourhood is known as *********.

      And then nearby there’s the ######## neighbourhood with ######## Drive, ######## Road, ######## Terrace, ######## Loan, ########Gardens, ######## Crescent, ######## Place, ######## Park and ######## Avenue! :-)