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Re:Raising of Chicago by __jal on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:58PM (#18313312)
If you expect everything everywhere to be a grid, sure, your mental model is not reality-compatible.

Thing is, that's also true of most "grid" cities, too - San Francisco offers you two grids, and then ignores both of them in hilly regions. Most cities I can think of in other places also are inconsistent.

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Re:Raising of Chicago by justinator on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:52PM (#18313742)
There's a great story of some Parisian aristocrats that attempted to flee Paris, but became hopelessly lost! Turns out a map of the city hadn't yet been created.
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