This is maybe the main thing I noticed as a European visiting the US. It also made me realise why I thought the early versions of SimCity were somehow not entirely satisfying.

You'll come across this in movies now and again, someone will use "blocks" as a measure of distance within the city, but if you've grown up in Europe it makes no sense at all. The space between streets here varies a lot, it's not just a grid where you can say "up three, turn left, along four".