IMO, living in neighborhoods where the streets are not organized in a grid is the most disorienting thing.
You suddenly discover that those two places, that need completely different routes to get into are right at the side of each other. And you do that again and again, at completely random places.
> IMO, living in neighborhoods where the streets are not organized in a grid is the most disorienting thing.
Isn't it the other way around? At least in the sense of, growing up in neighborhoods where the streets are organized in a grid is the thingthat makes you the most disoriented for the rest of your life.
That's rather a description of a tendency to cut neighboring areas, rather than grid system. There's plenty of places in the world where places close to itself are close to travel between.
You suddenly discover that those two places, that need completely different routes to get into are right at the side of each other. And you do that again and again, at completely random places.