Guess the City

I lived for more than a year in Marseille & have spent time in numerous other cities in the south of France, like for example Narbonne, and that decrepit vibe is par for the course, even in Marseille's city center. I'm not guessing Marseille though, the sky is wrong.

it looks like a place where a dirtbag (me) can live in peace

Maybe Perpignan?

https://i.postimg.cc/Cx36kHCK/Screenshot-2021-01-12-at-12-21-35.png

Another view

Still reminds me of Corsica. Porto Vecchio? Could also be Alghero on Sardinia.

Croatia somewhere?

yeah I was thinking Dalmatian coast, Split maybe?

I've been to Split and it definitely reminds me of there but geographically nothing quite fits

Figures tbf

is Malta an option?
either way, that white building down there in the bay looks like it's the biggest clue.

still reminds me of the south of France, somewhere between Marseille & the Côte d'Azur, like Toulon or Hyères, but I dunno

yeah I was thinking Dalmatian coast, Split maybe?

Those jokes are peculiarly funny to me. Desperate.

"I say, my wife and I took a holiday in eastern Europe."
"Moldova?"
"No, we decided quite quickly actually."

my favourite one

My wife's gone to Hugo Chavez's funeral in Venezuela.

Caracas?

No, she has a nuanced opinion of his controversial time in power.

please, I beg you

San Remo?

It definitely looks French to me though... St-Raphael?

Is there anything to say it couldnt be the Mediterranean coast of spain too

Both pics look south of France to me, and the first pic has a very typical French house number on the left hand side (although do they have those same blue house numbers in Spain/Italy? I don't know).

Cars look French too

I thought Malta for a second but apparently there are no palm trees in Malta any more

I'd actually guess Northern Africa... Melilla or Nador

Still think it looks French, but I also wonder about the terraced houses in pic 1 - not so common in France, old quarters tend to have small apartment blocks not houses. Also the window shutters are green, which is more common in Italy than France, although still perfectly possible for France.

is it Basse-Terre?

Those palm trees with the big clusters of red fruit don't look like any I've seen and feel like a clue! But I don't know enough about palms to identify the species. Maybe this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonidia_merrillii

or this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactris_gasipaes

or...?

https://i.postimg.cc/8NpnkhB9/Screenshot-2021-01-12-at-12-04-01.png

View #3

Messina?

Now I don't know what to think at all -- Naples but with a British cathedral in it?

Actually, is it Naples? That glass arcade in the foreground looks a lot like the 19th century glass mall there.

huh yes the church does make it look like Messina, and that's consistent with it seemingly being on a strait. I've not been there!

The big McDonalds sign at the bottom left in the second pic (if you zoom in) had me googling branches of McD's that would match up with the geography but needed the third pic with the proximity of what looks like mainland over the water and the shape of the docks to really narrow that down.

Messina it is

That second pic on Streetview

yeah the green McDo sign helped me see that this was Europe. I was looking for pertinent McDos in the Côte d'Azur earlier, didn't succeed obviously but now I reallllllllllly want to be there.

I just want to go to McDonald’s

There aren’t any close to me

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.2092891,15.5515575,3a,37.5y,130.11h,84.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syYU5gDcCgpsF2lklUwUkPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

the original streetview here

https://i.postimg.cc/w6Qh9TzQ/naaa.jpg

Friday view

Doesn't look European, I'm guessing US

I wondered if it might be Boulder but not sure it's built up enough.

some kind of small sports stadium in the middle of the picture, looks pretty distinctive

I'm drawn to the circular lawn with towered building centre left (an historic university/college?), but it's not helping, yet.

Missoula, Montana

^ that was so awfully specific it couldn't be wrong - and it wasn't :-)

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8585585,-113.973594,3a,75y,9.83h,86.58t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN0D9re2W1odv16GyYc8zy52UUlhtjc7zKFMJAN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN0D9re2W1odv16GyYc8zy52UUlhtjc7zKFMJAN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya54.536785-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

Aha, I think maybe this featured in a GeoWizard video a good while ago, I remember the M on the hillside causing much discussion. Need to see if I can find it and check.

Missoula, Montana

― All cars are bad (Euler),

Yes, was it one of those you just see it right off the bat?

It looked at first glance like a Rockies place, and it looked like a university what with stadium and the buildings around it, so I thought of a few western university towns and looked if they were on rivers. I tried the university of Idaho first, then Montana second and bingo. I knew it wasn’t Boise State because I’d been to Boise and the stadium has purple turf.

Way to go, I was about to start looking up Utah State

Way to go, I was about to start looking up Utah State

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, January 15, 2021 3:24 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i have utah expertise and it definitely seemed like it was either further north or higher up to me (evergreens at street level). missoula is beautiful and a nice place to visit.

Yeah I thought Utah myself at first

i don't know exactly how to tell it isn't utah but it's some combination of: no sagebrush, no cedar trees, no juniper trees, looks like it gets a few more inches of rain per year, no lds churches, the wasatch is more abrupt-looking.