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Who decides what home address street numbers will be, and how?
Example: my house is on the north side of the street, and the number is 2220. All the houses on my side of the street end in ‘0’ – the first house is 1800, and numbers increment by 10 until the far end, which is 2430.
The south side of the street all end in ‘1’ (the guy across from me is ‘2221’), and that side goes from 1801 to 2431.
How was it decided that we would be ending in ‘0’? It could just as easily have been any other even number.
Is there rhyme or reason to address numbering?
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