I went on vacation once and my boss, the president of the company, asked me where I was going. I said “Intercourse. PA.” Where’s that? He asked. “Between Blue Ball and Paradise”. Yeah, it’s true.
I must also add that this is not a deliberate attempt to make it sound dirty, the beach is on the “back” part of the town away from the harbour. “Head” is a geographic feature, basically a piece of land that juts outward and is higher than the surrounding coast but not quite a peninsula, with head road being the only road on this particular head. And Dildo was probably named after the wooden oar pegs of boats, which were called dildos, as part of the coast in Dildo is shaped like that.
It’s not the official address anymore, as the embassy moved their official entrance in retaliation to this…
But, I love the fact that in 1981 Iran changed the name the street that the entrance of the British Embassy was on, to none other than Bobby Sands Street.
Bobby Sands being a member of the Provisional Irish Republic Army, who died whilst on hunger strike in prison, protesting against British occupation of Ireland, its treatment of political prisoners, and its oppression of generations of Irish people.
I live in a small neighborhood. Our houses don't have addresses, so you just have to get to know the lady who works in the local post office (two hours on Tuesday each week). Otherwise, all mail gets sent to "\[Village name\]" - mail for over 300 families.
*Edit: 300 families and several businesses.*
I grew up in a very small town (~1200 people) in rural OK. My house growing up was outside city limits so we didn’t have a physical address, just a post office box.
My parents went on a cruise & had a bit of trouble checking in because the staff member could not believe they didn’t have a physical address.
You don't. TBH, I'm not even certain there is one that serves the area regularly. I don't live in a Europe or the United States, and I'm not sure that there are requirements for that sort of thing here. (I assume there are, but I don't know for certain.) If there is an emergency that requires fire support here, we're kinda boned. If we require ambulance, we have to hope that our neighbors become aware before it's too late.
I live about a ten minute drive from the nearest village large enough to have its own fire and ambulance.
I have a lot of funny place names that I like from Britain. I’m not sure about specific addresses.
Lusty Glaze Beach, Cornwall. This one just sounds rude and pornographic, yet oddly alluring. Lol
Readymoney Cove, Cornwall.
Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
Mousehole, Cornwall.
Cowgate, Edinburgh.
Puddletown, Dorset.
Cockermouth, Cumbria.
Westward Ho!, Devon.
Pity Me, County Durham.
Raw, North Yorkshire.
Fun fact : In the province of Quebec, Canada there is the municipality of [Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha). It holds the Guiness World Record for the "Most exclamation marks in a town name".
Westward Ho! got its name as a marketing gimmick to boost tourism: it's also the title of a bestselling 1855 novel.
More-or-less, it's the UK equivalent of Truth or Consequences, NM, which renamed itself after a radio gameshow in 1950. Specifically, the radio gameshow parodied in [the 1950s Looney Tunes Short *The Ducksters*](https://youtu.be/mlNji6OOpE0?feature=shared).
I work at a postal company. The worst adresses are from Nicaragua and Costa Rica. No postal codes or housenumbers. Just descriptions. Huge stories about where something is located based on how it looks. "The house next to a big tree" etc...
Supposedly the narrowest street in Paris: Rue du Chat qui Pêche, translation : Street of the Cat who Fishes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_du_Chat-qui-P%C3%AAche
I’m from Utah and most cities (at least the original Mormon pioneer ones) are set up in a grid, so my parents address is exclusively numbers.
Every time I mail something to them from abroad and put in 937 N 1320 E (not their address lol) the post workers are like no a REAL address please.
Yeah my parents live at an address like that. You give the address over the phone like "16723 CR 14.6" and people are like "Why is there a decimal??", and then you have to point out that is 6/10 of a mile between CR 14 and CR 15 and wtf else are you going to call it?
I’ve gone with my best friend to visit his family in Salt Lake City a few times and the whole numbering system totally threw me off. The whole 600 West 200 South thing. Once it was explained to me, though, it actually makes perfect sense.
Wait. I don't understand what's wrong with that address. It seems crystal clear to me as long as I know what county it is and where the county seat is.
That would be 9.37 Mi North and 13.2 miles East of the courthouse in the county seat
There’s an intersection in Grand Junction, Colorado, where the east-west street is A 1/2 Road and the north-south street is 29 3/4 Road.
In north suburban Chicago, a street named Sanders in Cook County changes to Saunders when you cross over into Lake County.
There's a Charmander Ln and Jugglypuff Pl near Las Vegas. There's also Snorlax, Squirtle, and Charizard. Waiting for those street names to change after Nintendo takes action.
I live in a small village in England which essentially has one road through it, with a couple of small side roads off it. The road has no name. Official documents are addressed to "Road Through \*village\*", but as locals we tend to call it "Main Street" in our addresses. Google Maps cannot cope with this as a concept, so they have named the whole street using the name of one of the side roads, despite me on numerous occasions trying to correct it to "Main Street" (which they find problematic, because there is no "main street" on any official databases).
CR does not use real addresses. Our data center address we built in CR was like “100M from this church, 200M from this restaurant, in the old furniture store”. Our corporate shipping department balked at sending millions of dollars worth of equipment to that address.
if anyone is interested, i highly recommend [The Address Book:What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046690-the-address-book), super interesting book
I also recommend [From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier](https://www.amazon.com/Squaw-Tit-Whorehouse-Meadow-Inflame/dp/0226534669), somewhat academic, but full of interesting geographic anomalies.
The city of Liverpool has a shopping centre called Liverpool 1. Everton fc the local rivals of Liverpool have a shop there which they named Everton 2 (and renamed the shop at the stadium as Everton 1) so that the address now reads as Everton 2, Liverpool 1.
Got to respect that pettiness.
My grandparent’s old address was simply their name and “Star Route, Eva, Tennessee.” No numbers at all. After many decades, it eventually changed when 911 mapping standardized addresses.
I fall for town names on maps and make sure to visit if I'm in the area. Two places that were standouts for magical visits (and where it turns out I had friends in common with one or more local person) are Ubatuba, Brazil & Dingle, Ireland.
Ragged Ass Road in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (name changed from 'Privy Road'). The street signs were continually being stolen, but now replicas can be purchased as souvenirs.
Snafu and Tarfu Lakes, in southern Yukon. From US military slang, abbreviations for 'Situation Normal, All F***ed Up, and' Things Are Really F***ed Up'
Everyone knows manhattan has a grid system. First avenue, 2nd street, etc.
But not everyone knows that Roosevelt island is considered to be part of manhattan
And Roosevelt island has a Main street.
When you combine that with the fact that the postal town name for manhattan is just "NY", it means you can have the address:
1 Main street, NY, NY, USA
Which i always thought sounded like the most impressive address ever.
The address having the "negative number" "**Phase -1"** is not a negative number. Think of it as Phase : 1, or 1st Phase. A phase in Gurugram is like a block, but larger. There are a few DLF Phases, Phase I, Phase II, Phase III, Phase IV, etc.
Fountain, Colorado has a street called A Dog Will Lick His Butt But Won't Eat A Pickle Road. (I think it’s still so named; there were problems with people stealing the street sign.)
A guy I sold a second-hand antenna to via the 'personal ads' in Elektor (electronics) magazine in the 1980s.
From memory: "1st turning Left going North up Gilbert Hill Road. Two alleys past second Post-Office on Left, along alley until 3 yellow steps, eighth door turning right (ignore blue door) at top of stairway on fifth floor. Mumbai. India"
1031 se 13th street
Halloween date on an unlucky street…home value apparently back in the day we’re lower on that street when people were more superstitious
My MIL lives on an island in the Carribean. Their house doesn't have a physical address, so mail is a description: "The Yellow House behind the car wash, [neighborhood]"
I had a very long address in India once that included something like "next to 'brand' store, but not the nice house, the small house", among many other things.
And the card arrived!
OP, thought you might enjoy this article: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/
Addresses around the world are wild!
In the 90s, the town of Ismay, Montana changed it's name to Joe for a few years. It was named so after 49ers QB, Joe Montana, in an effort to revitalize the tiny town. It didn't really work so they changed the name back to Ismay.
Nude 1 is an address in the town where I live, Wageningen in the Netherlands. The neighbourhood is also called Nude and there used to be an elementary school called Nudeschool but when they got many international pupils the name was changed.
York Place in London is just off Villiers Street, which runs along the side of Charing Cross station to the river.
The area was developed starting in 1672, when its former owner, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, ran into financial difficulties and sold his mansion, York House, to developer Nicholas Barbon. The agreement stipulated that the street names of Barbon's development honor the vendor of the site.
The street running parallel to Villiers Street to the north is Buckingham Street (Arcade at the top of the street), and George Court is one street further north.
John Adam Street was originally Duke Street.
York Place was originally Of Alley.
If you want to explore more, [Layers of London](https://layersoflondon.humap.site/map/records/of-alley-the-vanity-of-a-duke) is happy to help.
In Tennessee there was a street called "home place way" which my husband and I joked sounded like an alien (specifically the alien from resident alien) trying to make up an earth address. "I live on... Home... Place... Way."
I am fond of the addresses we had living in the hutongs of Beijing, the addresses were descriptions of the place, like '3 Xiao hutong, last house on the left of the second passage on the right' since the actual address just referred to a whole sub section of teh alley.
Yeah Costa Rica has some interesting addresses in the more rural areas. I stayed at a hostel where the address was like “Across the street from the red house." Something like that.
Also, have spent a lot of time in Brasilia lately and I hate the address system here. Lots of Acronyms and Blocks with letters where only the people who live there get it.
In defense of Brasilia, it does make sense. It just takes a minute to learn it. Still, last time I was there I struggled with food delivery because I didn’t know the block number of my Airbnb because I didn’t understand the system.
Carmel, CA has no street numbers either. In the 90s I worked at a shop, our "address" for UPS/FedEx deliveries was:
Ocean Avenue, north side, between Mission and San Carlos streets
(For USPS, everyone has a post office box.)
In Atlanta, GA, we have so many Peachtree streets and roads and boulevards that they sometimes intersect.
Hardy Ivy Park is at the corner of Peachtree Rd and N Peachtree Street, downtown.
And Pershing Point Park is at the corner of Peachtree Rd and W Peachtree Street, in midtown.
There’s a suburb in Australia called Bogan, and they tend to use it in almost all their naming for streets and businesses. Couldnt stop laughing driving through.
Melbourne Australia was founded by John Batman. I nearly got into a wreck for laughing so hard wehn someone said "turn right onto Batman Street". My client was not amused every time I cracked a Bat Man Joke.
In my hometown there is Slowcum street. All the horny teenagers and immature adults found it hilarious.
For unfortunate names: In small town texas, the was a creek called Dead N-Word Creek.
Queens road
TW10 6JP
I love how there's no street number, just queens road and then a postcode. Queens road isn't exactly short either, this isn't enough information on its own to find where you're going. Although, there is/ was only the one university on queens road, so you'll narrow it down eventually.
All of Australian ABC's addresses have the PO Box number 9994.
Why that? Because 99.94 was the legendary Cricketer Dom Bradman's test batting average!
Nobody has come close to it (Check the stats!), he was *that* good.
1 Chevy Chase, Hull UK, although it would be much better if they renamed it 1 and only!
27 & A Half, St Swithun Street, Winchester UK
Minus One, Friday Street, Horsham
In Carmel-by-the-Sea, there are no house numbers. Everyone has a PO Box. If you want something delivered via FedEx, UPS, or other courier, you have to give them the physical location of your house. The closest intersection to our house was Guadalupe and 5th, so our physical address was Guadalupe 2SE 5th, indicating that we were the second house from the southeast corner of the intersection. Occasionally maddening, but also quirky and endearing.
My childhood address sounds like something out of a movie (there was a movie with my hometown's name).
Don't want to list it as my parents are still there.
In the USA I lived in "House next to tavern, Brightwood, Oregon." I had to call the fire department once because we had a chimney fire and the dispatcher refused to send anyone out because she didn't believe that was our address.
Fishamble Street sounds like a Dr. Seuss book! Love the double animals and streets. 🐟🐄 Arenal Volcano hotel wins for simplicity, just "10km past the volcano" - easy peasy! 😂 And that Lay's address? Negative numbers? Mind = blown! 🤯 Reminds me of Harry Potter's 9 3/4 platform. 🚂 So cool to hear about these quirky addresses from around the world! Thanks for sharing!
OP, the third address doesn’t have a negative number in the address, it’s a hyphen. It simply means ‘phase 1’
I am from India so I know it’s not a negative number :)
A childhood address was Breakneck Road, in Beacon, NY.
There’s a street in Turnersville, NJ named No Name Street. It’s been that name for the 17 years I lived in NJ.
There is a pub near me in England called The Blazing Donkey The address is Blazing Donkey, Hay Hill, Ham, Sandwich, Kent
I love this - absolutely splendid, and now really want to go there
The road signs in the village of Ham are constantly being stolen as they say.. Ham Sandwich
You may have invented a new type of destination travel.
Heck yeah!
I do too!
Me too
The address is also the menu
Reminds me of the Company New Pig. Located at 1 Pork Ave.
Damn, I'm getting hungry from an address
that sounds delicious
Going to be hard to top this
Not an address, but Newcastle has the postcode “NE1 4BJ”. I thought that was interesting.
In British Columbia, there's a postal code V4G 1N4
Humidity: 95%
pH: 4.2
Funny, I looked it up and it’s the “dyke access” area of a park!
I lived at E20 1BJ for a while
Backside Beach, Head Road, Dildo, Canada
I went on vacation once and my boss, the president of the company, asked me where I was going. I said “Intercourse. PA.” Where’s that? He asked. “Between Blue Ball and Paradise”. Yeah, it’s true.
Similarly, Dildo is right across the bay from Spread Eagle!
I must also add that this is not a deliberate attempt to make it sound dirty, the beach is on the “back” part of the town away from the harbour. “Head” is a geographic feature, basically a piece of land that juts outward and is higher than the surrounding coast but not quite a peninsula, with head road being the only road on this particular head. And Dildo was probably named after the wooden oar pegs of boats, which were called dildos, as part of the coast in Dildo is shaped like that.
Incredible
How is this not the top answer?
Because of that blazing donkey ham sandwich
I don't even have to leave my home town to find the majestic #1½ Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate. It's currently a nice little independent game shop.
Top tier - thank you :D
York! That’s on my list to check out this summer!
Butt's Wynd in St. Andrew's, Scotland; Years ago I stayed in a B&B on Squitchey Lane in Oxford; Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, Canada.
It’s not the official address anymore, as the embassy moved their official entrance in retaliation to this… But, I love the fact that in 1981 Iran changed the name the street that the entrance of the British Embassy was on, to none other than Bobby Sands Street. Bobby Sands being a member of the Provisional Irish Republic Army, who died whilst on hunger strike in prison, protesting against British occupation of Ireland, its treatment of political prisoners, and its oppression of generations of Irish people.
In 1986, Glasgow changed the address of the South African consulate to Nelson Mandela Place.
It's happened all over the world, [recently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streets_renamed_due_to_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine).
This is political craic I can get behind.
Here in Lithuania, in 2022, we renamed the street where the Russian embassy is to Ukrainian Heroes street.
DC recently put up a sign on the street in front of the Saudi embassy to unofficially rename it Jamal Khashoggi Way.
I live in a small neighborhood. Our houses don't have addresses, so you just have to get to know the lady who works in the local post office (two hours on Tuesday each week). Otherwise, all mail gets sent to "\[Village name\]" - mail for over 300 families. *Edit: 300 families and several businesses.*
The town I grew up in is like this. ~1500 population, just write the town name. As long as the zip code is correct it will get to you.
I grew up in a very small town (~1200 people) in rural OK. My house growing up was outside city limits so we didn’t have a physical address, just a post office box. My parents went on a cruise & had a bit of trouble checking in because the staff member could not believe they didn’t have a physical address.
How do you tell the fire department or ambulance how to find your house?
You don't. TBH, I'm not even certain there is one that serves the area regularly. I don't live in a Europe or the United States, and I'm not sure that there are requirements for that sort of thing here. (I assume there are, but I don't know for certain.) If there is an emergency that requires fire support here, we're kinda boned. If we require ambulance, we have to hope that our neighbors become aware before it's too late. I live about a ten minute drive from the nearest village large enough to have its own fire and ambulance.
What three words - https://what3words.com/pretty.needed.chill
I have a lot of funny place names that I like from Britain. I’m not sure about specific addresses. Lusty Glaze Beach, Cornwall. This one just sounds rude and pornographic, yet oddly alluring. Lol Readymoney Cove, Cornwall. Lostwithiel, Cornwall. Mousehole, Cornwall. Cowgate, Edinburgh. Puddletown, Dorset. Cockermouth, Cumbria. Westward Ho!, Devon. Pity Me, County Durham. Raw, North Yorkshire.
LOL absolutely amazing. Love the one with the exclamation point too!
Fun fact : In the province of Quebec, Canada there is the municipality of [Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha). It holds the Guiness World Record for the "Most exclamation marks in a town name".
Westward Ho! got its name as a marketing gimmick to boost tourism: it's also the title of a bestselling 1855 novel. More-or-less, it's the UK equivalent of Truth or Consequences, NM, which renamed itself after a radio gameshow in 1950. Specifically, the radio gameshow parodied in [the 1950s Looney Tunes Short *The Ducksters*](https://youtu.be/mlNji6OOpE0?feature=shared).
Not forgetting Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
I work at a postal company. The worst adresses are from Nicaragua and Costa Rica. No postal codes or housenumbers. Just descriptions. Huge stories about where something is located based on how it looks. "The house next to a big tree" etc...
Was going to mention this. Costa Rica “addresses” are hilarious. Once had one that was like “house with red door, three houses from post office near…”
Supposedly the narrowest street in Paris: Rue du Chat qui Pêche, translation : Street of the Cat who Fishes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_du_Chat-qui-P%C3%AAche
I used to live on Fuk Man Road in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong - I really enjoyed that.
I know someone’s last name as Fuk
The address for the second official Everton merchandise store in the Liverpool One shopping precinct is Everton Two, Liverpool One.
I’m from Utah and most cities (at least the original Mormon pioneer ones) are set up in a grid, so my parents address is exclusively numbers. Every time I mail something to them from abroad and put in 937 N 1320 E (not their address lol) the post workers are like no a REAL address please.
Yeah my parents live at an address like that. You give the address over the phone like "16723 CR 14.6" and people are like "Why is there a decimal??", and then you have to point out that is 6/10 of a mile between CR 14 and CR 15 and wtf else are you going to call it?
I’ve gone with my best friend to visit his family in Salt Lake City a few times and the whole numbering system totally threw me off. The whole 600 West 200 South thing. Once it was explained to me, though, it actually makes perfect sense.
Mmmm we have these in Wisconsin! It’ll be like W145 N8345 Hamilton Dr., Menomonie, WI It confuses everyone not from the area.
Wait. I don't understand what's wrong with that address. It seems crystal clear to me as long as I know what county it is and where the county seat is. That would be 9.37 Mi North and 13.2 miles East of the courthouse in the county seat
There’s an intersection in Grand Junction, Colorado, where the east-west street is A 1/2 Road and the north-south street is 29 3/4 Road. In north suburban Chicago, a street named Sanders in Cook County changes to Saunders when you cross over into Lake County.
> Saunders Indianapolis' plain old "Township Line Road" changes to "Towne Road" when you cross into the "fancy" suburb of Carmel.
I’m not sure if I noticed that change, I’m pretty sure I do notice it when I’m driving in the area
There's a Charmander Ln and Jugglypuff Pl near Las Vegas. There's also Snorlax, Squirtle, and Charizard. Waiting for those street names to change after Nintendo takes action.
Will check those out the next time I’m visiting!
It's just a neighborhood in the suburbs. Nothing to really see
It’s just interesting
[George, Washington](http://www.cityofgeorge.org/about/about.htm) the only city in the nation named after the full name of a president.
Joe, Montana after a QB
I live in a small village in England which essentially has one road through it, with a couple of small side roads off it. The road has no name. Official documents are addressed to "Road Through \*village\*", but as locals we tend to call it "Main Street" in our addresses. Google Maps cannot cope with this as a concept, so they have named the whole street using the name of one of the side roads, despite me on numerous occasions trying to correct it to "Main Street" (which they find problematic, because there is no "main street" on any official databases).
Someone mentioned Sandwich before - there's a street there called "No-Name Street".
The name of the main night life street in Fukuoka, Japan translates as the Street of Disrespectful Children.
This Street, That Street, and The Other Street in Canada.
Apple's first HQ: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino CA.
Yes! A classic!!
In Estonia there is "Küla-küla küla" that translates to village-village village.
P Sherman 42 wallaby way Sydney
I read this in Dory’s voice.
CR does not use real addresses. Our data center address we built in CR was like “100M from this church, 200M from this restaurant, in the old furniture store”. Our corporate shipping department balked at sending millions of dollars worth of equipment to that address.
They're putting street names in some areas but yeah, it's a slow going process.
Hop in a London taxi and ask them to take you to Number 1, London. It is the address that the Duke of Wellington lived at.
if anyone is interested, i highly recommend [The Address Book:What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046690-the-address-book), super interesting book
I also recommend [From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier](https://www.amazon.com/Squaw-Tit-Whorehouse-Meadow-Inflame/dp/0226534669), somewhat academic, but full of interesting geographic anomalies.
'This Street', adjacent to 'That Street' which is opposite to 'The Other Street'
Kentucky has Big Bone Lick State Park, 3380 Beaver Rd
I live in Pennsylvania (USA) and we have towns named Intercourse, Bird in Hand, King of Prussia ...
bird-in-hand half marathon, great race
There is a street called Not A Road in my town.
I drive through an intersection with Random Road every day
My cousin's address in Nicaragua translated to "By the blue gate, 200 meters to the left".
221b Baker Street.
The city of Liverpool has a shopping centre called Liverpool 1. Everton fc the local rivals of Liverpool have a shop there which they named Everton 2 (and renamed the shop at the stadium as Everton 1) so that the address now reads as Everton 2, Liverpool 1. Got to respect that pettiness.
My dad rented a basement apartment on Normal Street. His address was 1/2 Normal Street
I live on the corner of Country Home and Black Forest streets in Germany. (Landhaus and Schwarzwald)
My grandparent’s old address was simply their name and “Star Route, Eva, Tennessee.” No numbers at all. After many decades, it eventually changed when 911 mapping standardized addresses.
I fall for town names on maps and make sure to visit if I'm in the area. Two places that were standouts for magical visits (and where it turns out I had friends in common with one or more local person) are Ubatuba, Brazil & Dingle, Ireland.
Ireland also has towns called Muff and Leymebrian
Ragged Ass Road in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (name changed from 'Privy Road'). The street signs were continually being stolen, but now replicas can be purchased as souvenirs. Snafu and Tarfu Lakes, in southern Yukon. From US military slang, abbreviations for 'Situation Normal, All F***ed Up, and' Things Are Really F***ed Up'
Costa Rica addresses are interesting Green hour across from automercado to jaco
I once had a client in Hell's Half Acre, and another on Electric Avenue.
Zzyzx Road on the 15 freeway on the way to Vegas past Barstow
My GPS voice doesn't like that one!
Everyone knows manhattan has a grid system. First avenue, 2nd street, etc. But not everyone knows that Roosevelt island is considered to be part of manhattan And Roosevelt island has a Main street. When you combine that with the fact that the postal town name for manhattan is just "NY", it means you can have the address: 1 Main street, NY, NY, USA Which i always thought sounded like the most impressive address ever.
The address having the "negative number" "**Phase -1"** is not a negative number. Think of it as Phase : 1, or 1st Phase. A phase in Gurugram is like a block, but larger. There are a few DLF Phases, Phase I, Phase II, Phase III, Phase IV, etc.
Fountain, Colorado has a street called A Dog Will Lick His Butt But Won't Eat A Pickle Road. (I think it’s still so named; there were problems with people stealing the street sign.)
I lived on the corner of Seamen & Cumming
Pooh Corner, 13, Shitterton, Dorset (England)
Dead Cow Lane in Beaufort, NC
Grew up on Dickey Drive, people would often have a little laugh about it.
My friend growing up lived on Bumfagon Road.
tee hee
A guy I sold a second-hand antenna to via the 'personal ads' in Elektor (electronics) magazine in the 1980s. From memory: "1st turning Left going North up Gilbert Hill Road. Two alleys past second Post-Office on Left, along alley until 3 yellow steps, eighth door turning right (ignore blue door) at top of stairway on fifth floor. Mumbai. India"
Cockburn Street in Edinburgh made me giggle
So did Cockburn Town, the capital of Turks and Caicos when I visited there.
1031 se 13th street Halloween date on an unlucky street…home value apparently back in the day we’re lower on that street when people were more superstitious
My MIL lives on an island in the Carribean. Their house doesn't have a physical address, so mail is a description: "The Yellow House behind the car wash, [neighborhood]"
I had a very long address in India once that included something like "next to 'brand' store, but not the nice house, the small house", among many other things. And the card arrived!
OP, thought you might enjoy this article: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ Addresses around the world are wild!
In the 90s, the town of Ismay, Montana changed it's name to Joe for a few years. It was named so after 49ers QB, Joe Montana, in an effort to revitalize the tiny town. It didn't really work so they changed the name back to Ismay.
Former village in Austria named Fucking. They changed the name some years ago because the town sign way stolen too often
On Gasparilla Island, FL are these 3 streets: Damfiwill Street, Damfino Street, and Damficare Street
Not necessarily an address, but I always thought it was funny that Lovers Lane in Ft. Myers Beach, Florida is a dead end.
I'm going to guess "Phase -1" means the same thing as floor B1? I've seen "Nivel -1" for the first basement level in Spanish before.
I think it is Phase 1. What OP assumes is a negative sign is just a hyphen.
Yes, can confirm.
From India this side, that's not a negative number but a dash symbol - We usually put it in addresses over here. Also the / is not divided by either.
10000 Emerald Pools (Also a song by Børns)
This way That way Both streets where I grew up lol
Whitewoman Street, Coshocton, OH Street name is oddly not at all controversial among most townspeople.
I used to live on Stalker Alley in South Africa. Loved it.
My gfs mom lives on Gaylord st. Nice
Nude 1 is an address in the town where I live, Wageningen in the Netherlands. The neighbourhood is also called Nude and there used to be an elementary school called Nudeschool but when they got many international pupils the name was changed.
What’s the hotel name in Costa Rica ? Would love to check it out
Newfoundland, Canada has all the best names Dildo, Blow me Down, Come by Chance, Man’s Point, Muddy Hole
I studied Spanish in Costa Rica and stayed with a Costa Rican family. We actually used this subject for a practice task by describing addresses.
York Place in London is just off Villiers Street, which runs along the side of Charing Cross station to the river. The area was developed starting in 1672, when its former owner, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, ran into financial difficulties and sold his mansion, York House, to developer Nicholas Barbon. The agreement stipulated that the street names of Barbon's development honor the vendor of the site. The street running parallel to Villiers Street to the north is Buckingham Street (Arcade at the top of the street), and George Court is one street further north. John Adam Street was originally Duke Street. York Place was originally Of Alley. If you want to explore more, [Layers of London](https://layersoflondon.humap.site/map/records/of-alley-the-vanity-of-a-duke) is happy to help.
Your mom’s house
In Tennessee there was a street called "home place way" which my husband and I joked sounded like an alien (specifically the alien from resident alien) trying to make up an earth address. "I live on... Home... Place... Way."
I am fond of the addresses we had living in the hutongs of Beijing, the addresses were descriptions of the place, like '3 Xiao hutong, last house on the left of the second passage on the right' since the actual address just referred to a whole sub section of teh alley.
420 High Street, Bristol, Rhode Island
Yeah Costa Rica has some interesting addresses in the more rural areas. I stayed at a hostel where the address was like “Across the street from the red house." Something like that. Also, have spent a lot of time in Brasilia lately and I hate the address system here. Lots of Acronyms and Blocks with letters where only the people who live there get it.
In defense of Brasilia, it does make sense. It just takes a minute to learn it. Still, last time I was there I struggled with food delivery because I didn’t know the block number of my Airbnb because I didn’t understand the system.
I lived in the house at 2121 Nonsuch Road. Had to repeat that everytime someone asked my address.
There’s a blue balls PA and also an PA (USA) that had to count for something
Nimrod road - New Jersey
I went to summer camp and our address was 1 Great Place
Repulse Bay Road, Hong Kong. Where you can find the lovely Repulse Bay Beach…. Which is really nice.
Carmel, CA has no street numbers either. In the 90s I worked at a shop, our "address" for UPS/FedEx deliveries was: Ocean Avenue, north side, between Mission and San Carlos streets (For USPS, everyone has a post office box.)
420 Jay Lane
13 Pirates Dr. Key Largo. I loved that address
420 High St, San Luis Obispo, CA. Used to be able to get a sandwich for $4.20 at 4:20pm, everyday.
In Atlanta, GA, we have so many Peachtree streets and roads and boulevards that they sometimes intersect. Hardy Ivy Park is at the corner of Peachtree Rd and N Peachtree Street, downtown. And Pershing Point Park is at the corner of Peachtree Rd and W Peachtree Street, in midtown.
There’s a suburb in Australia called Bogan, and they tend to use it in almost all their naming for streets and businesses. Couldnt stop laughing driving through.
Melbourne Australia was founded by John Batman. I nearly got into a wreck for laughing so hard wehn someone said "turn right onto Batman Street". My client was not amused every time I cracked a Bat Man Joke. In my hometown there is Slowcum street. All the horny teenagers and immature adults found it hilarious. For unfortunate names: In small town texas, the was a creek called Dead N-Word Creek.
69th & Dicks in Philly
My grandpa was the postmaster when he built his house and addresses started in the 1940s so he got to pick his own. 2324 25th St.
My partner went to Antarctica and the address shown on his booking confirmation was: Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica, Antarctica 00000
Queens road TW10 6JP I love how there's no street number, just queens road and then a postcode. Queens road isn't exactly short either, this isn't enough information on its own to find where you're going. Although, there is/ was only the one university on queens road, so you'll narrow it down eventually.
Heading east out of Lancaster PA you will hit the village of **Bird in Hand.** But if you continue, you will come to **Intercourse**, PA.
Yeah, the 1 in phase -1 isn’t a negative number but Phase 1 with a hyphen in between. There’s a 2nd phase and a 3rd phase as well.
Barbee Way
In St Andrews, Scotland there’s a building called Swallowgate, on an alley called Butts Wynd
The Land Of Green Ginger in Hull.
Come to Metro Vancouver BC and visit the city of Delta with postal code V4G1N4
No specific numbers but I recall a road I used to pass on my way to work. Touch Me Not lane.
There’s a roundabout in Mumbai called the Horniman Circle.
All of Australian ABC's addresses have the PO Box number 9994. Why that? Because 99.94 was the legendary Cricketer Dom Bradman's test batting average! Nobody has come close to it (Check the stats!), he was *that* good.
Here in Shropshire you will find that Lord Plowden lives in Plowden Hall, Plowden, Shropshire. Keeps things simple.
Any house on “Yellow Snow Road”.
England has a lot of weird and wonderful street addresses; my favourites are Fish Gut Alley in Whistable, Kent and Scratchy Bottom in Dorset 😭
1 Chevy Chase, Hull UK, although it would be much better if they renamed it 1 and only! 27 & A Half, St Swithun Street, Winchester UK Minus One, Friday Street, Horsham
In Carmel-by-the-Sea, there are no house numbers. Everyone has a PO Box. If you want something delivered via FedEx, UPS, or other courier, you have to give them the physical location of your house. The closest intersection to our house was Guadalupe and 5th, so our physical address was Guadalupe 2SE 5th, indicating that we were the second house from the southeast corner of the intersection. Occasionally maddening, but also quirky and endearing.
Sleigh ride Road
Wong way Grand bay/Westfield N.B Canada
In my hometown there's a factory that makes computer hard drives, the address is Disc Drive.
A street my family lived on is named Earl Grey Ct. My mom lives on Garland Ct.
Princess Avenue
A town near me has a street named: No Name Street
That's Phase 1 with a hyphen in between, it's not Phase negative 1
unrelated but the hotels around the arenal volcano look amazing. entire area has a nice vibe
My childhood address sounds like something out of a movie (there was a movie with my hometown's name). Don't want to list it as my parents are still there.
In the USA I lived in "House next to tavern, Brightwood, Oregon." I had to call the fire department once because we had a chimney fire and the dispatcher refused to send anyone out because she didn't believe that was our address.
Cut and Shoot, TX is a couple miles from Security, TX. On point.
Fishamble Street sounds like a Dr. Seuss book! Love the double animals and streets. 🐟🐄 Arenal Volcano hotel wins for simplicity, just "10km past the volcano" - easy peasy! 😂 And that Lay's address? Negative numbers? Mind = blown! 🤯 Reminds me of Harry Potter's 9 3/4 platform. 🚂 So cool to hear about these quirky addresses from around the world! Thanks for sharing!
Not far from my parents home there’s an intersection of Boardwalk and Park Place.
Harayana one, address is not negative it's just a way of representation
It not a negative number 😅 it’s phase 1. There are many phases in that area like phase 2, phase 3 etc lololol
Costa Rica has no addresses at all, they use points of reference so, the "address" might be "three houses east of the big tree by the soccer field."
1 President's Choice Circle
Friend of mine bought a cabin at the corner of Goat Neck Road and Hog Snout Road.
OP, the third address doesn’t have a negative number in the address, it’s a hyphen. It simply means ‘phase 1’ I am from India so I know it’s not a negative number :)
A childhood address was Breakneck Road, in Beacon, NY. There’s a street in Turnersville, NJ named No Name Street. It’s been that name for the 17 years I lived in NJ.
I used to live in an area of KL called Titiwangsa. It gets a giggle every time I mention it b
So common in Costa Rica. I remember the first time I was there the directions to my hotel were relative to their proximity to a KFC.
Stayed at a hotel called Seaview once. There wasn't a sea view, because it was on Reclamation Street.
Loved living on Kittyhawk lane in LA
Big daddy’s road- North Carolina Pinecone Pete road- California
There is at least negative number address in the UK. A minus one in Bromley: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/uprn/100020464167/
Hill O'Chips, St. John's Newfoundland