you're lying to me for no reason!

[Caractacus_Potts]

I can remember the whole "sun rises in the east/sets in the west thing" from when I was about 8 or 9.
Either way I'd still get confused about which way's north

REM "Stand"

Stand in the place where you live, now face north
Think about direction wonder why you haven't
Now stand in the place where you work, now face west
Think about the place where you live wonder why you haven't before

On a state highway just a little ways from my office there is a stretch of road that according to the road signs you're traveling both north and south on different highways at the same time. Reality is you're traveling on a third highway east. No wonder the damnyankees get lost around here.

I think that's pretty common anywhere on the East coast, North or South. Interstate highways were built on old state highways that were built on old state roads etc. When you go back far enough the original road was a path that was easiest to walk/ride a horse from one location to another and rarely took the shortest "as a bird flies" route.

The sister of a girl I dated used to drive about fifteen minutes out of her way because she refused to get off I93 South onto I95 North. She couldn't grasp the fact that at that point I95 North was actually heading dead East, the exact direction she needed to go!