Do you have a poor sense of direction? Your hometown could be to blame
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People who grow up around street grids, like the kind you’ll find in Manhattan, may have a harder time finding their way around, new research suggests.
Some people are like human compasses, magically navigating city streets to arrive at front doors tucked away in back alleys and crammed into elaborate, obscured folds of architecture. They can step out of an underground subway station and immediately know which way to walk. They can leave a campsite for an hour-long hike through dense forest, zig-zag between identical trees, and return unfazed and on time.