Guess the City

Awesome work!

I did start googling 'red building city Lisbon' and similar last night suspecting that the caption 'Work' had a double meaning :)

Oops, no, no double meaning. Someone assumed that about a previous photo too. There's never a clue in the caption, everything is in the photo only

Nice one

Yeah those [whatever you call the glossy mosaics] look so Lisbonian

check out the 2009 version on Streetview though

Not there in 2014 either!

This one is going to be relatively easy, i think:

https://i.postimg.cc/PqycJp00/Street-LI-3.jpg

Not Europe, not North America, or South America I don't think. Looks Asian, more specifically subcontinental, judging from the men's dress / skin colour. Couple of yellow taxis too which makes me think India. I'm guessing an Indian megalopolis, Mumbai or Delhi.

Black and yellow curbs could provide the answer

But isn't that an oak tree?

I can confirm that it’s not Mumbai or Delhi.

looks kind of post--soviet to me but what do i know

actually it might be africa?

wait no it's definitely antarctica, getting a strong fort mcmurdo vibe

Phuket?

Islamabad?

Phuket?

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agree

The anomalous oak tree is a good spot.

The only clues I will give are that people play cricket there and nobody is super close yet.

My initial thought was also Delhi but I see thats already been thrown out of court.

Dhaka?

If I say nobody has the country right yet, that will probably make it a lot easier.

Colombo

Not Sri Lanka.

found it! Sharjah, UAE - Rolla Square, to be precise

Correct!

not good at manoeuvring through Google Maps/Street View, but it's around here: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.3564388,55.3896858,3a,75y,348.82h,107.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sL91ToI9apzg3kBC34OPfgg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=nl

Good work

not good at manoeuvring through Google Maps/Street View

I am!

https://goo.gl/maps/ZpGU8n69oQw9g66H6

a search for black and yellow curbs in Asia got me this pic:
http://geotips.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/srwpd3s.jpg

was expecting Bangladesh or Pakistan, but it turned out to be a UAE construction firm. then checked UAE for cricket-ness, not expecting anything, but yes! tried Abu Dhabi parks first, but then switched to Sharjah, which was also mentioned as a cricket-friendly city, and found a pic of a park that seemed to match.

Al Rolla Square, as it happens, is actually named after its banyan trees!

ah thanx, right on the money!

xp

I thought those black and yellow curbs might do the trick!

yep, I went with your suggestion, seemed like the only way in

I only just noticed it actually says Sharjah on that pic as well!

I looked up street views of Dhaka & Colombo and there would be thousands of scooters and Vespa Apes parked on the sidewalk if it was one of those towns, and the sky would be smoggy, and abject poverty

time for some red & white curbs

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

or are they black & white? (honestly can't tell the difference, sorry)

that looks like spain?

Maybe somewhere in the Caribbean?

Is that car driving on the left though?

Somewhere warm, somewhere (it seems to me) left hand driving, so former British colony?

These are very good questions, ZZ, and there is an interesting answer which would be too much of a clue at this stage.

Convinced myself that it's India but there's really not a lot to go on. Feel like identifying the spongebob-like cartoon on the mural is key

Driving on the left + scrubbiness of vegetation consistent with Anglophone Caribbean.

From the comment that there's an interesting answer to my questions that would give too much away, I surmise that this isn't exactly a former British colony, but perhaps once occupied by the British or maybe is still a British overseas territory. For a moment I got excited about Israel, as they seem to have red and white curbs, but sadly they drive on the right. However, Cyprus drives on the left, could it be Nicosia?

The far right tbh

Feel like we can be a little quick with the clues. Clues were popping out for Sharjah before I'd even seen the pic! (not that I was anywhere close to getting it)

Clues from the poster of the pic I mean, not from guessers!

I'm leaning somewhere in Cyprus for now, but the road signs don't quite feel right for there

Googling black and white curbs, I come up with Singapore and Malaysia. Could this be Malaysia? Drives on the left and has "interesting" (to say the least) former relations with Britain. Not quite tidy enough looking to be Singapore, I feel