Guess the City

Picking additional shots when the answer was sitting there already 99% of the way there was tricky!

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8562195,-118.3992219,3a,75y,59.25h,68.93t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4e2Zs55SnJ08cfL9kxA__g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

xp to Stan
It was lost in the other beach towns - Redondo, Manhattan, ...

I looked on zillow for price estimates and in the original picture, the house on the left (xmas tree) is estimated at $2.3M and the one next door (behind penis umbrella) is $2.6M.

totally normal state

HWAT, 2.6M!?

i was thrown by, among other things, lack of green bins. apparently hermosa is still rolling out green bins which i guess makes sense when a lot of them don't have gardens and many of them are neo-nazis https://www.hermosabeach.gov/our-government/city-manager/environmental-programs/solid-waste.

xp
A single-family home one block from the beach in a desirable part of Los Angeles = big money.

https://i.postimg.cc/RFfhFmCD/cc.jpg

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first guess: maybe this is germany. but no obvious major port so not hamburg or bremen. maybe that's a lake then. but this is too nice for berlin (where the lakes are) so my guess is ... potsdam (on the basis that it's next to berlin but nicer and more verdant). general vibe is quite like this but this view has too many churches/towerblocks https://www.360cities.net/image/nikolaikirche-potsdam-skyline and if i'm right i certainly can't find the spot.

Blocky apartment blocks lining wide boulevards did made me think of post-Soviet Europe...

there's also a distinct lack of churches which east germany or even further east, although there are some pretty ritzy chateaux type buildings

what's that round black thing with the white roof? football stadium?

I don't know, at first I thought it was something industrial, now I'm not so sure.

Blowing the photo up, it seems to be the sea on the horizon, then a narrow isthmus of land, then a narrow body of water - lake or head of a river - then the city. I think.

i assume it's one of these xp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder

Assume so too, but funny place to have one, in a built up area. Which again makes me think somewhere east of the iron curtain.

there's a pretty famous one near central london but yeah that does look like it's pretty central in a smallish town which seems weird.

The lower half of the pic looks quite fancy and much less Eastern European. I'm confused!

yeah all the individual buildings and look like fancy bits of germany or france (even the apartment buildings), same with the trees, but the almost complete absence of churches is not right.

that foreground roundabout with an ornamental lake/island in the middle (?) should be distinctive.

There's an area to the right where there looks to be church spires, but hard to tell

I think I see two churches? red one on the right, gray one straight ahead?

I think this is Szczecin, just checking Polish coastal cities and the red church looks like the Basilica of St James there

On second thoughts probably jumped the gun there, not sure things quite match up geographically.

Don't think it's Rostock, big harbour there

Yes I've been looking, and failing, up in that neck of the woods! The city seems to have a pretty distinctive geography - at the head of a river I think, separated from the sea by a narrow stretch of land.

This reminds me of another town on a river which we did a few months back, which turned out to be in Ukraine.

Yeah was thinking Mykolaiv, the buildings, colour of the rooves, and street structure speak Ukraine to me

Klaipeda, Lithuania? Has the requisite isthmus but can't quite make the rest of it fit, despite lots of red roofs and trees

Liepaja, Latvia!

https://goo.gl/maps/L3XWCVPk9bvKKGBQ6

Figured that the round red structure with the white roof was the best lead. Searched for pictures of round buildings and eventually found it. The "Great Amber" concert hall.

Well done! So a lake, not a river. I have never heard of Liepaja but it looks kind of nice!

o.nate again! well done!

I had no idea thats what an isthmus was before, good manouevers!

the circular ornamental water feature is "Swan Pond"

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zmfupPrPErVEbVwx9

No-Swan Pond would be more accurate

https://i.postimg.cc/63McyLxH/susu.jpg

Monday

this looks like it is somewhere in latin america. the church that can barely be glimpsed to the right seems like it was constructed in the baroque style, probably pretty early, like 1600s.

i am going to guess this is somewhere in colombia. medellin?

heredia

https://www.nacion.com/resizer/Daj4_ahfRokFNyJxKvcEdvcf32o=/1200x0/center/middle/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-gruponacion.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OFPGMRWWH5G45LR273VEBXC7MM.jpg

Damn

Well done.

Wow! Been there?

holy hell!

can't find the exact Google Maps shot, but this is from the same session:
https://www.google.com/maps/@9.9980476,-84.1167565,3a,75y,351.62h,99.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sad9yyhkx-EsvDNx8HOFXAw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=nl

amazing, I did think it looked a bit like another in a park in South America we had a while back.

Wow that was quick and impressive

https://www.google.com/maps/@9.9980574,-84.1167785,3a,75y,336.7h,93.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVK5KaVAT9kTAaHup7uR2rA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=nl

(the exact street view - about two clicks away)

https://i.postimg.cc/sXX6qNnY/hi.jpg

Back indoors

- Dubl Handi washboard = from Columbus, Ohio
- Arts In ... folder?
- what's that wavy thing outsice (behind pink jacket lady's head) ? Are they standing next to a shuffleboard?

north america because the portable AC is set to farenheit and there's a diner-style coffee mug. that's all i got.

They don’t have diner mugs abroad? Sucks for them.

the very thick ceramic and concave outer surface is uniquely north american in my experience.

spent ages trying to read that Pure Hanoi sign before I read the next post!