Nordic House Numbers #comedy #nordic #norway #sweden #language

[olafurw]

I thought the house behind me would help, but that was labeled D. So no.

[insarbatyrgeldi]

Number system with the jam on the side

[dejjal]

18 through 26 is where the Elves live.

[Raven-Jomi]

It's all fun and games until you have an appointment in building 19 and you can only find 35B, 17 and 25A all next to each other in a random order

[svena.halstensen]

i am living in the Norwegian countryside, my house is number 410. there are not 410 houses on this road, not even close.

[andersfrihagen]

Hi, Norwegian here. In my street (and as far as I know) the numbers are right side of the road are odd, the left are even, so if there are no houses on the other side of the road there are just houses with odd numbers. If there are a building with individual flats, they are numbered by the contractor!

[Foureye]

As someone who has worked as a delivery driver in the Nordics it sure makes things interesting, let me tell you. (Okay tbf it wasn't that bad for most of my route)

[wyrmshadow]

Adresses in Tokyo are numbered in order built on the city block, no matter its orientation. Ive been told

[clarasundqvist]

Fun fact, in Gothenburg there’s a building with the number 17.5 because the story goes that they built the street from both sides so when they got to the middle the numbers didn’t match so they had to compromise :D

[Goated-LilPump]

“I dont see a problem with it”
-Jón Jónnson

[Lilith]

Makes perfect sense, since if the house is 90 degrees from the next one, you add/subtract 10 from the number.

[VioletLeader]

Better than some American building numbering systems.

My apartment block uses “letter, number” for the apartment units. A1, A2, etc.

There are less than 26 buildings in the complex. Yet the builder still decided to use the letters I, O, and Q in this way.

I live in unit O2. Not 02, not #2, but O2.

For the first year I lived here, we had packages sent back to the sender because certain shippers (UPS and DHL) couldn’t just look at the complex map.

Today I have to make sure each order has shipper’s notes about the building numbering system.

[cronwail]

This is something that Tom Scott could have made a banger video about

[Bearded-northern-guy]

well the island next to ours actually does it like:
it only has one street anyways, so every new building (regarldess on where on the island it is) just gets incremented by one (at the moment its higher than 200). so house number 1 is the oldest house and the higher you go the newer it gets :) at least till the building gets demolished, which screws with that a little :D

[T-H-B]

It's nr 27 of another street that is behind and around the corner. It's totally logical. At least for Oslo

[Thelaretus]

Here in Brazil the buildings are numbered their distance from the road's start, with even numbers on one side of the street and odd numbers on the other.

[aniieesteiner]

Swede here, I live in nr 1, and my neighbours are nr 3 and nr 27. There is no nr 2, nor is there a nr 26 or 28... Numbers are fun.

[helenetrstrup]

Odd numbers on one side of the road, even on the opposite in Denmark. Empty lots are numbered too, so even if plot 19 is missing a house, the surrounding houses would still be 17 and 21 and then it doesn't matter if no one ever built a house on 19.

In terms of apartments they're split in left and right. For instance I live on the ground floor on the left.

My childhood home has two plots, and two house numbers. One of the plots used to be business while the other was private.

[chungus]

I was already shaking my head when he said "here's 17 and here's.." 😂😂

[sanneba]

I believe in Sweden houses belong to the street that is closest to the entrance, which gets really confusing if you have an area of apartment blocks or row houses built in-between two streets. When I was studying I lived such an area where the houses were build along a grid of bicycle roads but numbers were assigned to whichever main road was closest. I lived in #3. To our right was #1 and to our left was #2 because it belonged to a different street.😅