eli5 Why do house numbers skip digits?

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My brother lives at 35 Parson Lane, yet the next-door neighbor is at number 25. My last house was number 10, the next-door neighbor was at number 12. Why all the number skipping? Why not just go in numerical order starting with 1, then 2, etc.

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My street’s numbers are all fucked up. My house number is 1658. My neighbor to the right is 238 and my neighbor to the left is 1660. No idea what caused it. A few houses past 238 it goes back into the 1600’s again. It’s super weird.

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