Guess the City

Honolulu?

JFC those terraced neighbourhoods are depressing (been google streetviewing though Holbeck just now)

I've seen worse. A lot worse.

I lived in two or three back-to-back houses like that in Leeds, they were solidly-built and fine to live in. You really are living close to other people though, you can hear life going on through the walls on three sides.

Best not think about the risk of fire with only one way in and out, of course.

There was the occasion when a friend of mine was up to no good with a young lady in one of these, on the next street along from his actual girlfriend of the time. He hadn’t worked out that these two women’s bedrooms shared a back wall. Unfortunately my friend had an extremely characteristic smoker’s cough at the time and found himself dumped in short order.

can we just forget i posted jan 24? it'll save some people the displeasure of rooting around american interior west shitholes until they stumble on laramie, wyoming.

I've been there, it was nice

But, like, for one night

Yes this is a city

https://i.imgur.com/oxImAQz.jpg

Hmm I think I've worked it out but googling what I did to do so, for such a quick result, seems a little..unsporting.

I did think someone would probably get this one quite quickly

I'll just give it a few minutes if someone else knows without needing to do cursory research of Europe's tallest urban viaducts.

that bridge/viaduct is distinctive - not that i can find it via google

Luxembourg?

it is, yes

did you get it from the viaduct or via another method?

ARGH I knew it looked familiar, and I did a similar Google search

I've been to Luxembourg and that photo sparked some distant memories.

another city

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN_icxJzdQEGq81BmONOH4UjH1q2Vs24xACcLp_=h1440

Vladivostok?

yes

yesssss

how are you people so good at this

Lemme try one:

https://i.imgur.com/wL4GCrI.png

is that ... penza?

xxxpost, but seriously, how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess? i'm genuinely curious.

yeah i'm stumped too, I don't see anything distinctive in that night photo

I would never have got the Vladivostok one. I came across some good Vladivostok shots a couple of weeks ago and was going to use one. It does have a distinctive feel - but thats in the daytime. Night time shots are really tough

Struggling with that last one too. I thought the lights might be a clue

is that ... penza?

― budo jeru,

I checked and they have similar lights (that I could fine) but with two bulbs not three (this was near the Duma)

how do you look at that photo and guess, correctly, Vladivostok on the first guess?

1. Ex-Soviet apartment blocks
2. Port town
3. If you zoom in, there's a truncated word that gives you a partial clue

These are too easy, let's go back to Podunk, Arkansas (pop. 3,220).

Yeah there's a "Sollers" sign, makes sense (in the Vladivostok photo)

I think the last one might be Samarkand?

Correct!

hey hey hey!

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6558293,66.9642106,3a,75y,94.6h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPaUtHBSFUv0G4gg7eRDWAjryx5wjwuDWdyb8oO%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya194.80452-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

An impressive showing.

crazy

I've been to Samarkand but I don't recognize that area. Didn't venture far beyond the Registan.

I was going to guess Ashgabat, figuring it would be somewhere between the Caspian and the stans/Chinese border

I'm impressed by how well travelled people are too tbh.

lol yeah I think i'm just jealous of everyones insane travel knowledge.

I've been to Samarkand but I don't recognize that area. Didn't venture far beyond the Registan.

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posts that need a beat

Here's an easy one

Just screen-grabbed a photo bc it was so lovely to look at

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50878668013_36474bc7c3_h.jpg

Monaco?

Yep, that's got to be Monte Carlo. Stock photos are too easy. :)

Lemme try another:

https://i.imgur.com/srdvqTS.png

Pretty distinctive pink building that looks like a church, well maintained while everything else looks a bit decrepit. I'll take a wild guess at somewhere in Africa, maybe former French or Portuguese colony

Intrigued by the anchor crosses on the building behind the church (if it is a church). Sadly I can't nail down any organisation that uses an anchor cross as their symbol. But it is used by Methodist missionaries - which might go with the fact that the "church" doesn't look Catholic (no stained glass windows, too austere). Which might rule out my initial thought of Francophone or Lusophone Africa.

why am I googling pink churches - what's Google going to think of me now?

i could easily be wrong but the two entrances suggests its a mosque to me...