House numbering opposite us is very odd. It jumps from 46 to 74, 76 etc. There is no vacant space for additional properties so I have no idea how the numbering came about.
Be grateful you don’t live in Venice. Each neighbourhood (sestiere) starts its numbering with a significant building, often a church, and the numbers snake outwards along the rios and calles in a seemingly random fashion until the last building is reached. As sestieri can stretch for up to 3 kms the last house might have a number well into 4 figures.
While in the older areas of Tokyo the numbering starts with the oldest property and finishes with the newest property. I have not cross checked the veracity of my Tokyo comments.
While in the older areas of Tokyo the numbering starts with the oldest property and finishes with the newest property. I have not cross checked the veracity of my Tokyo comments.
I recently had cause to try to verify an address in Japan, and was getting stuck. Luckily I have a friend there who was able to help and explained exactly what you've said, @BenCotto - with knobs on! He said
'Building/house numbers here are not sequential, unlike in Britain. They are chronological - based on when the house or building was built and registered. For example, our house number is 105 it's quite a new house, next door is an older house and its number is 29. It's a nightmare trying to find houses. Houses here aren't built of materials made to last hundreds of years like Britain. The are essentially wooden supports with traditionally wooden cladding (now prefabricated non wooden materials) - earthquake problem, you wouldn't want to be in a brick built house in an earthquake!- so they will be rebuilt every fifty years or so. Consequently new and higher numbers occur.'
So basically it's not a plot number, it's a house number, so if you demolish your old house and build a new one on the plot, it gets a new number!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Apparently the Royal College of Nursing, who are demanding a 19% payrise for their members, have only give a rise of 4.5% to those working for them. Clearly living costs for members of the RCN have increased 4 times more than those they employ.
Our first Christmas card arrived in the post today. The thing was about A3 size and cost the sender £3.95 just in postage. There was nothing on there that really justified the enormous size either.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I can't believe I'm sticking 1st class stamps on Christmas cards either but at least Sainsbury's have now paid me the difference. £3.95 is way over the top - more money than sense?
This was my DIY card that I made for the kids to give my wife for her birthday recently. Well this was the template I made and I embellished it by hand after printing it out.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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While in the older areas of Tokyo the numbering starts with the oldest property and finishes with the newest property. I have not cross checked the veracity of my Tokyo comments.
So basically it's not a plot number, it's a house number, so if you demolish your old house and build a new one on the plot, it gets a new number!
£3.95 is way over the top - more money than sense?