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 Red Cheep-cheep Level: 35 Posts: 21/221 EXP: 260414 Next: 19522 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6112 days Last view: 6149 days |
1120 being the lowest 1201-82 being the highest. |
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Level: 24 Posts: 22/92 EXP: 69905 Next: 8220 Since: 02-26-07 Last post: 5289 days Last view: 5269 days |
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 The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 95/4196 EXP: 21544339 Next: 292262 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 478 days Last view: 90 days |
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 Morton Koopa Feel the pain of those inferior beings...as you burn in hell! Level: 98 Posts: 171/2410 EXP: 9377550 Next: 276803 Since: 02-19-07 From: Sweden Last post: 4521 days Last view: 4502 days |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 426/1881 EXP: 6465612 Next: 185052 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
Growing up I just thought 5-digit numbers were normal because we went to the Detroit area a lot to see the relatives. Now I find they seem to be extremely rare except in a few places (like Michigan, California, and parts of Canada).
I've seen a few places with addresses beginning with a zero. One area in northern Michigan has numbers like 06135 or 02273 or even 00062. |
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 Lantern Ghost Level: 60 Posts: 34/766 EXP: 1680433 Next: 92345 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5971 days Last view: 5777 days |
5 is lowest in which I live in part time.
Lowest I've seen is 1. Highest I've seen was around four digits. Highest I've live in was definetly 115 I believe. Did I win yet? ____________________ I miss post headers more. |
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 Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 24/76 EXP: 52513 Next: 5837 Since: 02-19-07 From: 
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The lowest house number I have lived in that I know of, would be 11-B (yes, with a B, as there were houses with two apartments in each.) Then we moved to a 12, and now I currently live at a 25, with and the number of my little dorm is 233.
Heh, it seems though, that the system with starting on 1, and having all the odd numbers on one side, and the even numbers on the other isn't used everywhere. 
... I used to think 60 was high once. I have never seen a three digit house number, but I know they exist, even in Norway. (I used to work at a callcentre, we got people's addresses up on the screen.) Though, when you Americans refer to area code, is that your postal code, or the three first digits of your phone number? ____________________ Damage done. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 435/1881 EXP: 6465612 Next: 185052 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
"Area code" refers to the beginning of the telephone number. Mine is 248, by the way. The postal codes are 5 digits and are generally called "zip codes". |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 25/76 EXP: 52513 Next: 5837 Since: 02-19-07 From:
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Meh, now that looks like such a dumb question, but thanks for explaining. I don't know my excact area code then, since I only use a cellphone.. But it most likely starts with a 5, as all (or most) phone numbers do in this county. ____________________ Damage done. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 451/1881 EXP: 6465612 Next: 185052 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
I thought most European countries use separate area codes for cell phones and landlines, unlike the USA. |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 33 Posts: 39/201 EXP: 225877 Next: 3302 Since: 02-19-07 From: Philadelphia, PA Last post: 4453 days Last view: 4451 days |
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Level: 65 Posts: 224/945 EXP: 2302634 Next: 32994 Since: 02-19-07 From: Texas Last post: 6038 days Last view: 5548 days |
My lowest house number is 113 and that is my highest number. I've lived in the same address all my life.  |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 456/1881 EXP: 6465612 Next: 185052 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
My dad was (and still is) in the Air Force so I moved a lot as a kid. Around 1997 they stayed in Redneckistan, Michigan though, I guess because my dad was at a high enough rank (having served since 1971) that he didn't have to move anymore?
The addresses I lived at, in order: With parents: ???, 7304, 815, 5233, 924, 23206, 7199 On my own: 21211, 28965 I don't know the first address because we moved out when I was really young. |
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 Melon Bug Level: 58 Posts: 78/732 EXP: 1569688 Next: 7858 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 4260 days Last view: 3519 days |
Lowest Address Number I've lived at: 4
Highest Address Number I've lived at: 8761 |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 27/76 EXP: 52513 Next: 5837 Since: 02-19-07 From:
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Posted by Kernal Either I worded myself poorly, or you misread something. In Norway, there is no area code for cellphones. Cellphone numbers usually start with a 9 or a 4. Then all the numbers following that just seem to be random. Lets say you have 5 people living in the same area. Person 1's cellphone number starts with 461, #2's starts with 968, #3's starts with 952, #4's starts with 481 and 5's starts with 975 and so on... It might just be that it depends on what phone company they're using, though, but I can't say that for sure. (The 9 vs. 4 thing, I'm thinking Telenor vs. Netcom.., maybe? Note: Those aren't the only two companies in Norway, but they are the ones that own the actual lines, so to speak. Any other company has to rent capacity from either of the two.) I have been using the same company all the time, and my first three digits are 900. ____________________ Damage done. |
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 Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 105/681 EXP: 1408562 Next: 77366 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada Last post: 6125 days Last view: 5920 days |
The house I live in now is the only house I have ever lived in and its number is 7. The lowest I've seen is 1 and the highest I've seen is like 300. I don't pay attention to house numbers to much and when my family goes on vacations we don't go into to many residential areas. |
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 Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 1/126 EXP: 111949 Next: 4210 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5853 days Last view: 5853 days |
What a great thread! I love this kind of thing; I even considered becoming a city planner as a kid!
I won't be setting any records for huge numbers. Where I was born in Brooklyn, we lived in house number 5, and then moved to a house in New Jersey numbered 1. Acautlly the street I lived on in NJ was bizarre. On one side of the street you had houses numbered 1, 102, 106, 104, 108, 200, 202... on upward to about the 500s. My house (1) was built long before the others, which were put up after WWII and after it was decided that the north side of the street should be even numbers. So they then put up 102 and 104, but then squeezed a house between those two, and since there were no even numbers available they just numbered it 106. Crazy, but the same guy is still delivering the mail there evena fter 20 years, and he hasn't gone nuts yet. I also lived in an unnumbered building -- my college dorm which was addressed only with the street and then your postbox number. That's just the US. Living in Kyoto, I had a house number which existed but was never used -- stuff was addressed using the street you lived on and then the cross street and direction. Would a letter sent to "5th & Pine, east of intersection" arrive safely? It was certainly easy to understand and to give people directions. Other places in Japan have this bizarre system where the strets are unnamed, but the blocks in between the streets are numbered, and then each building has a number inside the block, so block 50, house 8 in Sakae-machi would be "Sakae-machi 50-8". There are sometimes bigger blocks surrounding those, so you can live at "Adachi 6-17-27" and other such barbarisms. The Kyoto system is much better. When I was in Vienna a while ago I noticed that they would never, ever skip numbers, even if there were miles of space between the buildings. You'd have number 272, then many blocks of empty land, then 274. What happens if they put a house up in that space? Do they have to shuffle everyone's number? Or are there already rules against building anything new? |
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 Panser Swedish weirdo times eleven Level: 42 Posts: 34/339 EXP: 494737 Next: 26625 Since: 02-19-07 From: Stockholm, Sweden Last post: 5191 days Last view: 5190 days |
Posted by Kernal Lowest: 4, I think. Highest: 46 (my current house number) Posted by Kernal Lowest: 1 Highest: No idea. Posted by Kernal No idea. ____________________   |
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Level: 48 Posts: 111/458 EXP: 776909 Next: 46634 Since: 02-19-07 From: The Void Last post: 3037 days Last view: 3037 days |
Only 31 here. Then again, this house appears to have been built a while ago, and this is a rather short road.
Makes me wonder where the heck the numbers below 30 are, because the street terminates almost immediately after the car dealership across from us. |
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 Micro-Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 4/16 EXP: 5065 Next: 920 Since: 03-09-07 From: Sweden Last post: 6175 days Last view: 6126 days |
I never had numbers..
My house has a name.. Skogshäll häll is pronounced exactly as hell. And skog means forest so... I live in Foresthell 
Did i win? |
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