>i forget that i'm geeky about maps so i understand city
>limits and county borders and state lines in ways that ppl who
>aren't map geeks may not.
>
>and outside of reading maps and memorizing borders i can tell
>when i move from one city/town/village/et al to another b/c
>the street name signs change - usually in color and/or shape
>and/or font from one jurisdiction to the next.
>
>all of this stuff is interesting to me b/c i'm a geek. lol

I'm a dork for this kind of stuff, too. Like most New Yorkers, I took for granted that every city treats its suburbs with a mixture of awe and contempt.

I still have no idea where Chicago officially ends on the South Side. We were on a 179th and Harlem and it was Tinley Park -- but the numbers keep going as though it were part of the city. IT MAKES NO SENSE. I CAN'T RECONCILE IT. IT'S MADDENING.