If I can respectfully disagree, I get the street organization in the Pacific Northwest, and it works for me. At least in the PNW you almost always know where you are at by the consistent NE-NW and SE-SW street layout, and about how far from home, as the street numbering tends to pick up from town to town from north of Everett to south of Kent-Auburn. And even without a street number, you can almost always figure out which way is west and walk towards Puget Sound. Street names aren't so hard as long as you remember a few names, and are familiar with some of the older routes (Hwy 99, Military Road, Northup Way etc) that are layered below the modern street grid.

London cabbies have it really tough.

And talk about spinning a drunk around and setting him loose, that actually happened to me on my 19th birthday. 'Friends' kidnapped me, blindfolded me, and let me loose down on the east side of Lake Wilderness (back when there weren't many folks down there at all). They thought they would next see me as a rescue or cadaver on KING-TV, instead I walked out to highway 169 and caught a ride near to home, and was in bed before they were. They sat drinking about a half mile from where they let me loose, thinking I would head in their direction. When they hadn't heard from me they called my mom, who answered at 5am, heard her son was missing, she said he's here, do you want to talk to him?