On 25-8-2009 22:16, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:01:49 +0200, andrel wrote:
> 
>> Every house here belongs to a town (or village if you like). Don't tell
>> me even that is different in the US.
> 
> It is.  We have street addresses called "rural routes" - the post office 
> is located in the nearest town, but the house is not actually in the town.

To be slighly more precise: are there houses that are outside the 
juridical borders of a city?
Of course we have houses outside of town here, but the juridical areas 
of the towns in the Netherlands cover the whole country.

> Sorry if you don't believe me, but that doesn't make what I'm saying 
> false.

I have no problem to believe you, but what you seem to say does not 
match how we do things here, so I want to know if we are talking about 
the same thing.

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