Getting from A to B and why it's probably a good sight easier on the North American side of the Atlantic
Getting directions in North America is considerably easier than in England. For one thing, the cities tend to be set out in grids, which makes it easier to pinpoint specific places. Then there's the numbers system, which is far simpler to navigate by than our British version: In US and Canada, the number of a building tells you the block and how far along it is; in Britain, they just go from 1 upwards, with odds on one side and evens on the other, and there's no guarantee that they correspond to each other, especially if the street winds a bit or there's a gap on one side of the street with fewer buildings or none at all.
But then there's the linguistic dimension. Here in Britain, we don't really talk about blocks. The direction two blocks down on the right is as likely to confuse as it is to help. Part of that is due to the haphazard layout of British streets, but still it is often easy enough to identify blocks.
Secondly, North Americans have the convenient phrase kitty-corner, which means the corner diagonally opposite, as in the supermarket is kitty-corner to the gas station, where we Brits have only the more complicated-sounding diagonally opposite.
Thirdly, North Americans refer to streets simply by the first part of their name, eg. Madison for Madison Avenue or Main for Main Street. This leads to short, convenient directions like Go down to Foster and Main, meaning Go to the junction where Foster Avenue meets Main Street. Again, this would as likely confuse as help a Briton. We'd have simply to improvise a phrase, for we have no straightforward idiom like the North Americans have.
With all this in mind, I think I'd much rather be lost in New York than in London.