Not that Iqaluit is large by any means, but when you are new here it is quite hard to find anything. The problem is there is no address system in place, and everything is found based on a building name. Even the residential addresses are just a house number, no street name or anything. Since all the cabs know where everything is, it sort of works.
Yesterday I was trying to find the pool. The website says the address is “the apex building”. Ok. Luckily when I asked someone where it was, I happened to be 30 feet away from it in the same building. Finding a restaurant is about the same. “Follow the fence that way, and it’s the orange building next to the blue one” was my directions the other day to find Swarma (which is really good actually). I think after a month you pretty well know everything anyway, but still is a pain when you are used to 123 fake street, and not ‘the brown building’.
Oh, and Google maps pretty well gives up. Pretty well any address you plug into it takes you to the center of the city. Oddly they don’t have Google street view either...
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