Guess the City

#1. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2938231460_393d9fd250.jpg

Some midwest shithole?

yeah i was gonna guess somewhere in michigan

or maybe it's toledo?

Kiev?

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

god it looks horrible. bad shot maybe?

hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it

is someone gonna tell the answer?

if in the US, Pittsburgh?

i don't think it's the US

no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?

hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!

http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg

helpful clue

ya none of that anywhere else in the world

looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.

oh lol jho :D

minsk

actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

feels like russia or a stan to me.

interior asia

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Misprint of "not sold in middle east"?

Possibly.. it seems the bins are of an EU standard form factor.

- no satellite dishes anywhere? They're banned in Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan... Don't know if that's a clue?

Assuming the city is in the northern hemisphere, the shadows indicate we're looking at the north side of that block of flats, and satellite dishes would be on the southern side of the building.

Just realised it doesn't matter what hemisphere it is: if this is south of the equator, we're looking at the south side of the building, and the dishes would be on the north.

Second pic?

https://i.ibb.co/L86rgj7/11a.jpg

Second pic

looks like a similar blue-white-red flag thing on the balcony there

i will nail my flag to the mask of the dominican republic

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/d/do.gif

(having second thoughts having looked again at pic 1)

Dalmatian coast (based on nothing)

I have a new hunch it's Portugal but not sure wherein

no idea. graffiti "cego!!!" "bics risk" ?

are we missing something or is these two pics just too generic to even start guessing?

is/are

https://i.ibb.co/vYhKsTS/jayu.jpg

III

image is broken

https://i.ibb.co/TrHcCVy/yay.jpg

iii vers. ii

i don't know why this one is so hard. TV tower? not Almaty

I guess they look like olive trees, I suppose it'll be somewhere like Macedonia or Albania

I think it's Porto and that's the Villa Nova de Gaia TV tower

Definitely feels like Portugal but that tv tower doesn't look like the Villa Nova de Gaia, which also appears to have a red and white lattice mast and a smaller tower (which does look like the one in the above pic) adjacent

possibly, I thought the match was good enough given the distance from the tower in the photo, but you may well be right. It was the small cobbled pavement that made me think Portugal or maybe Spain.

I've google image searched tv tower portugal, tv tower spain, ... sardinia corsica italy sicily france switzerland austria hungary slovakia slovenia croatia montenegro kosovo macedonia bosnia albania greece romania bulgaria moldova ukraine turkey georgia

maybe it isn't a TV tower after all. Some of them look kinda like this one (sofia/vitosha, for instance) but not exactly. Or we're not in Southern Europe. I don't know. :(

https://i.ibb.co/m52s6sC/egg.jpg

Not often something reaches 4 clues but today is one such day

if only there was a big chief ispy book of lampposts of the world...

weird photo, looks like a digital collage from an architect's mock up. hint of blue on the left side of the car number plate - eu maybe?

the 'BUS', the P for parking and the X no stopping sign could all be the uk, but for the wrong side of the road thing that's going on.

also uk buildings are generally more finished than that one.

That looks like a jacaranda tree behind the lamp post, native to So America, but widely planted elsewhere.

what's that yellow pattern/painting on the road? some kind of optical thing that should be seen from a particular angle?

It's a box junction ("do not enter unless your exit is clear"), weirdly elongated.

don't have that in Belgium, which does narrow it down :-)

is that a german postbox?

There are several trees there that look like jacarandas, which grow in warm climates so I doubt they have many of them in Germany. The cobblestones, the jacarandas, the racial mix of people and the sort of rundown air all make me think of a suburb in a Portuguese city, or at least somewhere in Southern Europe.

Photo 2 - there's some graffiti mid-right that looks a bit to me like coracao - or at least it looks like it has a tilde over one of the letters

one of them says cego which means blind in both portuguese and spanish, and the place does look iberian

Intrigued by that large yellow boxy thing behind the lamp post.

according to my googling spanish mailboxes are yellow but tbh more lemony than that one

clothes recycling collection? glass recycling?

Well the "no stopping" and "parking" signs are standard EU

feeling pretty convinced this is Lisbon

It's Lisbon, the Benfica Railway Station area:

Pic 1, 22/1/3 (6, Estr. Buraca):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7442957,-9.2047569,3a,60y,281.05h,105.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGAU5FtQPoEZu6hOBKxqfmw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Pic 2, 22/1/12 (Campolide?):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7446855,-9.2032527,2a,37.5y,85.63h,94.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLWAL3tqWr1_MQDifaueChQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Pic 3, 22/1/16 (R. Issan Sartawi / R. Garcia de Orta):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7451261,-9.2049262,3a,75y,126.81h,99.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOtSjlQZyI3qcYWwJ9HG9Ug!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Pic 4, 22/1/20 (R. da Venezuela):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7448069,-9.1993145,3a,75y,260.8h,103.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stuoK_ShThX7gApWoHFvLoA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Note about that TV tower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Forest_Park
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Florestal_de_Monsanto#Antenas_de_Monsanto:
“Thanks to the dominant position in relation to the entire Lisbon region, Monsanto was equipped with several antennas. Among these stands out the Centro Emissor de Monsanto, a communications tower of Portugal Telecom, which succeeded the former antenna of RTP. With a height of 100 meters, it is one of the tallest structures in Portugal.”

Nice one! I looked at the aerial views and gave up, however did you figure out which part of town?

nice one!

The last picture gave me strong Lisbon vibes, more specifically it reminded me of Sete-Rios station, where we embarked on a train or metro every morning while staying in Lisbon in 2019 to venture into the city centre or away from it. Confirmed by the box junction thing: Wikipedia only mentions Malta, Cyprus and Portugal as Southern European countries where it’s in use. Streetview showed some very similar buildings along the railway to the ones in the second pic when exiting the station, so I decided to move down the line away from the centre, further into the suburbs. Hit the jackpot at the very next station. Locating pics 1 and 3 took a bit more time.

picture two looks to be taken from a freight train

and the yellow thing is vestuario usado = used clothes

Good work kousenband!

I didn't expect this one to be so tricky, at least after the second pic anyway. Good work on getting all shots, wanted to keep them as close together as possible while showing something different

And yes, the shot of outside the station is oddly reminiscent of an architects mock-up photo. The lighting, and maybe the way the people are placed

https://i.ibb.co/R9XBhdJ/oc.jpg

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