About the city laid out on the diagonal. That's exactly what I mean. Compass directions get too complicated and arbitrary.
In Montreal, there are so many neighborhoods and some of them have multiple names and some have been renamed, plus the French language is not something I'm particularly facile with it all just adds up to my confusion. I use Goggle maps and I can find my away around, but for instance, I was looking for St-Jean's, and in English it was translated to St-John's, and I ended up in the South Island by McGill when I wanted to go to the West Island.
I'm pretty good with maps and directions. I went to Bangkok and used a map to expertly navigate that fouled up city full of horrendous traffic, duplicate names and one-way streets. However, for some reason, Montreal seems to present a unique problem for me.