Your Top 10 cities where it is the easiest to get lost in (live, suburbs)

[Borntoolate85]

Many European/Asian cities are notorious for complicated city layouts and uniform architecture making it difficult to negotiate getting around. But even the US is known for its share of getting lost. This would be my top 10 for getting lost in the US:

1) LA
2) NYC
3) Boston
4) Washington, DC
5) Detroit
6) Houston
7) Atlanta
8) Pittsburgh
9) Dallas
10) Chicago

[brattpowered]

#1: Pittsburgh. Also, DC, Boston, San Francisco and New Orleans

[blkgiraffe]

I don't know how you could get lost in Houston or Dallas.

[kidphilly]

How is LA confusing, mostly a grid, big but still a grid

[TheWereRabbit]

NYC, outside Manhattan is confusing. Manhattan (above Houston st), however, is one of the easiest places in the world to find your way around.

Boston is very easy to get lost in. I've lived here my whole life and still get lost all the time.

[lmcintyre1s]

A couple notes on previous posts (I don't know how to multi-quote ):

- New Orleans seemed incredibly easy to navigate to me, and I'm not even a city person

- I recently watched a show on NYC, "Super City" or something like that. Part of it discussed the grid in Manhattan...pretty interesting.

[emcee squared]

Originally Posted by lmcintyre1s

A couple notes on previous posts (I don't know how to multi-quote ):

- New Orleans seemed incredibly easy to navigate to me, and I'm not even a city person

- I recently watched a show on NYC, "Super City" or something like that. Part of it discussed the grid in Manhattan...pretty interesting.

That show on Manhattan was pretty fascinating, I only caught the second half of it.

I have to say Atlanta is pretty confusing without the 'grid' layout at first. Way too many variations of Peachtree street.

[BPerone201]

How do you get lost in Manhattan?
I feel like it's the easiest place to know your surroundings.

I'm in Philly right now, and i'm finding where things are at a good pace.
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FL cities are among the easiest to get lost in (from where I've been). Not Miami so much, but Jacksonville, Ft Myers/Cape Coral area.

[arrgy]

Boston...only because of the one way streets

Jacksonville...not so much in the downtown part of the city, but in the suburbs if you are outside the 295 beltway you can get lost very easily.

Baton Rouge...oh God it seems so easy on paper...just find I-10 or I-12 or airline highway, but I never find it.

[Westerner92]

It seems to me like many East Coast cities/metros are difficult to get around in because I get confused when things aren't laid out on a grid. It doesn't have to be a perfect grid, but a general system where most of the streets intersect at right angles. Just looking at Google maps (and speaking from some experience depending on the city), Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Charlotte, the Washington metro (not DC itself), Northern New Jersey, and Boston look like the most confusing.