Adults Displaying Childlike Behavior On-line.

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During the 3+ years we were looking for a house here, I think we drove virtually every road of every "subdivision" in Puna at least once, as well as living in 5 widely scattered ones. What I noticed about street signs and numbers, while trying to find whatever house we wanted to look at, was that the areas with private road systems that weren't backed up with a solid funding and maintenance mechanism tended to not have road signs. The ones with a road crew that maintained the roads had better signage.

In general we discovered that rentals often don't have numbers, and houses where people had lived for decades, not years, also didn't have numbers, while newer houses that were owner occupied, or ones that had just been built had numbers. The old timers didn't need numbers back when they were the only driveway on the road, and renters just don't do stuff like go to home depot and get numbers for their gate.

A few years ago the county was talking about making street numbers mandatory, they dropped the idea when it was discovered that many county buildings and offices didn't have numbers either.

Carol