6th North and What?

You can say what you want, but when I first moved to Utah, I could not for the life of me understand the street layout.  10th West and 8th North?  How does that even work?!

actual map of Omaha, NE

Look up any map of Omaha.  The street lay out simply does not make sense.  There is no rhyme or reason.  Directions in Omaha usually went something like this - Take 1-80 E to 47th Street.  Turn L at the stop.  Turn right onto Ponca Hills Road, curve right at the T.  There's none of that bogus north, south, 10th, 12th nonesense.  You just have to figure out where the streets are and just memorize it.

comparative map of Logan, UT

Not only does Omaha not have a grid layout, we like to name our streets similar things.  We have names such as Ponca Drive, Ponca Circle, Ponca Street, Ponca Boulevard, Ponca Road, Ponca Country Road 40.  You get the idea.  And Ponca Road and Ponca Circle are sometimes only blocks from each other.  It doesn't make sense, but when you grow up in the area, you just get it.  You don't question it, you don't ask why it's complicated.

So for me, moving to Utah and having a simple mapping system was, well, too simple!  I could not wrap my brain around it.  It felt backwards that N/S streets should be E/W numbers and vice versa.  I remember calling my mom within days of arriving here and crying that I couldn't find my way around and that I kept getting lost.  Pathetic, really.  How something so life-changing could be so difficult is embarrassing.

Thankfully, I can now say that I've mastered the Utah grid system, and do prefer it to the nonsense of Nebraska's backroads.