Guess the City

Second pic definitely required, that first one was a real needle in a haystack

Sorry "coastal" may not have been the best descriptor but when looking at maps of continents, Windhoek seems coastal from that perspective.

I believe it's somewhere around the roundabout near Christuskirche but I don't have the time today for further goofing off.

It's in Limassol. Or, at least its twin is. I was sure I found the building in the distance, the kerb markings, almost everything, in Limassol. Definitely wide of the mark once again

My turn?

https://i.imgur.com/NTtLTW3.png

too easy

Beersheba?

Monterey, California?

definitely reminds me of Israel

also like the hills above Palo Alto, looking toward the Pacific, but the colors and tbh the fences look more like the eastern edges of Jerusalem

That's a race track no? Hence my guess. A few minutes googling famous racetracks (or raceways as I found they're called in the US) took me to Laguna Seca outside Monterey. This looks a lot like it, even down to the blue and white strip along the track

Looks close to the spot

The Corkscrew
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9npXDVUyBQx5NDiH7

correct, the corkscrew at Laguna Seca! Apologies if that was too easy.

I have vomited at the apex of that climb three times in an hour long event.

https://i.postimg.cc/5yvg6GYy/16387-A3-C-2-AC4-495-B-90-CE-06-D38371-F1-E6.jpg

Quite a few leads in the picture for this one.

Laguna Seca

Is this actually in a city?

I checked with your mom and she said that yes it is.

Yours said it isn't.

Yes Tom Dombadilly, Laguna Seca is in Monterey, CA, USA.

https://virtualvacation.us/guess now with video

Quite a few leads in the picture for this one.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari),

I can't really look properly until tomorrow but this looks a good one

singapore

Not Singapore.

the sign says "BOUISI" so somewhere that was formerly part of french indochina. it just seems like that region to me.

Surabaya

https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.2393138,112.7373624,3a,75y,3.29h,98.77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbBEjYxN59iAra0jfGD16oQ!2e0!5s20190201T000000!7i13312!8i6656

I figured it was Indonesia but no real clue where, dropped in Surabaya and saw similar roofs straightaway, but finding the actual building was tougher

Correct!

I was clear on it being Indonesia and found the similar buildings and all, but then I thought the same thing with thinking Windhoek was in Cyprus and that I'd found the right building in Limassol

gah, what a missed opportunity! thought it might be a police car, but couldn’t quite read how exactly the word was spelled here, and then fixated on that street lamp pole, which looked so familiar, but I couldn’t get it through googling. never occurred to me those red shapes could be letters. “polisi” would have been such a dead giveaway. damn you, low resolution!

https://i.postimg.cc/PrgcBGQS/ux20.jpg

Monday

That looks so much like Toronto, that style of high school underpass mural. Can't place it, or the red trusses, though

I'm deeply tempted to say Philadelphia, but I don't know that mural and can't find anything about it on the local mural sites. The buildings toward the center-right look deeply eastern US seaboard to me, or at least east of the Mississippi.

I *really* think it's Philadelphia, in the "I feel like I've driven by that mural on the way to the airport" sense. Does on the way to the airport give a clue?

The foliage does place it around Philly, to my eyes... slightly too verdant for Toronto

it's not on the way to the airport

oh well

Those buildings could rly be anywhere influenced by edwardian architecture

i can understand where you'd get that, though, eephus— of the several routes one can take to the Philly airport, one of them requires the driver to stop at a light near a bridge with a mural that has similar vibe. That mural, however, is nowhere near any hills, or within sight of a residential neighborhood, and doesn't feature a red bridge, but some sort of old school concrete/stone amalgam...

welp I just exhausted 5 minutes of various permutations of search terms:

red orange steel art deco rail truss trestle underpass overpass mural

The part of the mural under the bridge depicts a cityscape which maybe represents the city this is? Maaaaaaybe Chicago? There's one building in front which seems to have a diagonal front face like that tower in Chicago that has that.

Chicago railroad underpasses tend to be concrete in my experience.

it reminds me so much of one neighbourhood in montreal but like if four different parts of the neighbourhood were kinda patched together like in a dream

any other hints?

That stop light is interesting -- only two lights and they're both red (or is one orange?).

I know of one similar one-lane-wide underpass that has a 2-way light (red & blinking-yellow once triggered).

@Will I was also thinking it could be Canada.... but East Van or West Windsor?

Looks like it could be in New Jersey.

xp. definitely not east van

I think it’s just a yellow blinking light, the kind that are used as a warning of a possible obstruction.

with all due respect to the many good players in this thread, i would like to read an extensive interview with cherry blossom about their approach to the Guess the City game

It could probably be anywhere in New England, how about Northampton MA