Guess the City

all the plants are green and there's a Christmas tree in the yellow house - Southern hemisphere? (or is it that hot in Floriday at Christmas time?)

xpost yes! it also feels Japanese - no overhead power cables though

I didn't actually notice the flag outside the yellow house but taking the two together that's surely a US flag. Both Miami and Tampa seem to use blue recycle bins.

looks dry for Florida imo, I'd guess California or even Arizona

the presence of multiple pedestrians might rule out AZ though

it looks like a desert climate and fairly densely populated. somewhere in LA?

Id guess Cali, too. Too many aquaphobic plants and xeroscaping to be Florida.

looks like it could be tucson or san diego but the lack of sidewalks is kind of weird for most u.s. cities so idk, the us flag might be a red herring lol.

i think it's too dry to be coastal cali though

It's not San Bernardino or Merced, from my initial searching.

The small lots and apartment building density suggests beach town to me. Beach towns can be dry.

Yeah, tbh it feels kind of like San Diego.

yeah totally looks like The Strandway except without the red curbs

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7764379,-117.2528332,3a,75y,2.25h,68.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soerjgubayHaCF7jhmXeIsA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

agreed this feels like coastal socal. probably very coastal (like within quarter of a mile of the ocean) given the density and pedestrian infrastructure and general beach vibe.

the low rise relatively dense vibe feels like hermosa or manhattan beach to me, but they have no k street.

the only coastal k street i can find in CA is in san diego, but it's way bigger than this one, unless this is an alley behind k street.

although there's something not quite right about those two vans in the distance that makes me think okinawa might be thinking more along the right lines.

also the absense of overhead cables + US flags makes no sense to me.

fwiw I thought that said "4th" street not K

yeah I'm totally not sure about that K

the low rise relatively dense vibe feels like hermosa or manhattan beach to me

this was my first thought too.

Are there any modest houses left in hermosa or manhattan beach?

I was thinking a more middle class beach town like Oceanside.

the houses in hermosa and manhattan are mostly shitholes. they just happen to cost $3m.

the only other thought i had was venice beach, but this looks a little ... culturally suburban for that?

xp
I guess I shouldn't extrapolate from the LA Times real estate section's "stars who just bought/sold a house" column.

fwiw I thought that said "4th" street not K

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K, 4th, or 7th have all seemed possible to me

can we have another tio please, we're not making any progress I think?

tip

https://i.postimg.cc/BJRfzhM9/c.jpg

back to work (second view)

Still looks like California beach town that time forgot, but I didn't think there were any of those any more.

Starting to think North Baja, Mexico, actually.

yeah something's not right. this isn't socal.

the cars are wrong and there are no green bins.

Hawaii?

This is another pic like the Newcastle one that is light sometimes and dark other times

Does Mexico have stop signs that say stop? Not according to Wikipedia

Puerto Rico, maybe

Weatherboard houses in disrepair close to the sea does make me think Caribbean, but no idea where

alright well I will formally guess San Juan, Puerto Rico

Definitely looks like American Southwest, but starting to wonder if maybe it's not actually that near the beach.

Eh I don’t think it’s the continental US

if that red sign with yellow letters just above the STOP sign on the right is a street name sign, then it's probably not in the USA?

"As of 2009, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) approved color schemes for street name signs including a green, blue, or brown background with white text, or a white background with black text"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_name_sign#Color_coding_and_typography - which also mentions there are exceptions though (burgundy in the Fiesta part of Mesa, AZ? Haven't found an example yet)

The street sign background looks more brown than red.

i assume a stop sign in puerto rico would say "pare"

https://i.postimg.cc/y8WcLbSD/mz5.jpg

iii

StanM already said Hawaii and that has blue bins, similar road markings, red octagonal stop signs, bungaloids as far as the eye can see. Damned if I can narrow it down though.

Pretty sure that's a red golf buggy. Maybe it's near a golf course (at least a dozen in honolulu alone) or maybe someone just likes to tool around in a golf buggy.

but how are these three pictures so... horizontal? Anywere I click on Hawaii has mountains in the background (or I'm doing it wrong)

Hermosa Beach!

https://goo.gl/maps/VJ3zLtga9o1xchvAA

I thought someone already kind of guessed it, but I guess not formally.

Still curious exactly where that first shot was taken though. Such a weird vibe in that photo.

Wow! nice one!

well done to cherry blossom too, you had us following all kinds of wild red goose herrings.