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

second pic green roof looks like it might have a Russian Orthodox cross at its peak

Yes just about to say similar about more of a Russian feel in second

Couldn't tell on the cross but definitely on the green bit

Not sure on houses, more of a Bulgarian feel but nothing more than hunches

The buildings on the right in first picture all look like new residential construction for some reasonably prosperous clients.

Konya

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8715637,32.5055013,3a,75y,141.5h,80.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIg-UslIvFIR0o1yatTAnAA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

how ?!

Very good!

wow

can't find the other view yet but have found building with similar if not same tiles so may be close

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8989078,32.4610693,3a,75y,37.1h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQSVlzuJ2602PCzwkeAieXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

oops

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8998229,32.4612848,3a,75y,298.49h,94.74t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2SmqlKYxehuGYrWWG-ZaUw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D2SmqlKYxehuGYrWWG-ZaUw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D253.55316%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

I think it was around the north east of the city but I can’t find it myself either now.

The green dome in the other picture is part of the Sufi poet Rumi’s mausoleum.

dumb american question--i know what an american shithole is: is colchester a shithole? With respect to anyone who lives there

― a (waterface),

Someone more familiar with Colchester will answer better than me, but I don't think its somewhere that would spring to mind if you were thinking "most shithole places". Its a satellite town of London, might not be in the top bracket of satellite towns but probably relatively high. I guess kind of above average but with neutral-is reputation? I'm going non-shithole but hedging my bets

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19118281.colchester-named-one-top-places-live-uk/

172nd best out of 1372 places in the UK according to this piece. Its enough for me to unhedge my bets, non-shithole it is!

how ?!

― that's not my post

I felt it was Turkey (though more from the first pic which I still can't find than the second. I though Antalya or Adana at first, then I looked at Konya, that green dome thing pops up pretty quickly once you look at photos of Konya - though initially I thought the angle of the dome was wrong I thought there might be other similar ones. Dropped in on centre of Konya and the feel was like the second pic, and headed close to where the dome thing is and I knew was in right place just needed to moved around a bit to find the exact view

The other view, I searched property sites for Konya thinking it looks super new / not finished yet and would probably be a listing in one of the two buildings. Found one with similar tiling I linked above, but wasn't able to find the right building

Scooted around the city a bit. Colchester might not be a shithole, but Konya looks to be one. The whole city appears to be composed of buildings going up, buildings falling down, or both

Bravo and thanks for the explanation. Key insight was it looked like Turkey and then narrow down to large regional cities to find the green dome.

Yeah I was kind of joking with the shithole comment. I was generally thinking of “pleasant” market towns outside London. Conventional wisdom is these places are not shitholes. Couldn’t pay me to live in one though.

pretty much everywhere that isn't a major city in the u.s. is a shithole imo, i imagine it's the same for the uk.

turkey sounds like a bit of a nightmare to be sure

so many shitholes i'm having a trypophobia

Not posted one for a while so here goes

https://i.postimg.cc/0ymMLSbK/Screenshot-20210923-101059-Maps.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/0ymMLSbK/Screenshot-20210923-101059-Maps.jpg

Conventional wisdom is these places are not shitholes. Couldn’t pay me to live in one though.

This says so much. Thanks!!!

xpost: I have no idea. The only thing I've not seen before is that electric maintenance christmas tree thing on the left?

could be a silhouette of south america on the pink poster on the middle column - or it could be a completely unrelated shape. also posters with south america on may appear in non south american countries.

Riga, Latvia

Nope

Philadelphia

This is a tough one!

I have very little to offer on this one so far. I initially thought it was in Asia but now I really don't. I got traces of Kiev, and traces of Texas but I can't really say why

The (yellow and white?) (sign?) on the overpass in the far right of the photo looks interesting but its too indistinct to really go anywhere with it

I think its somewhere in Russia

Not sure there's enough in that pic for anyone to get it without another pic. But the towers on the far left are all nestled together in a way that I think rules out Western Europe, North America and probably South America as well. Doesn't narrow it down much, but I'm guessing it's either China or Russia

Far right I meant

the evergreens rule out texas i think. could be canada. it does look interior / plains to me based on the dryish lawn and dusty light.

i don't think it's north america tbh, something about the buildings

they look like apartment blocks? in north american cities they would be office buildings clustered around a downtown. i think russia or eastern bloc is likely, maybe inland china.

I can't unsee Russia now anyway

What is anyone seeing on the bottom right poster where there are four? I'm kind of seeing a cartoon type character in a top hat but it could be an optical illusion

Who wants another pic?

Yeah, go for it

posters on pillar + cared-for grass + no white paint on base of tree indicates to me that this is not China, btw.

https://i.postimg.cc/YSBfwgFL/Screenshot-20210924-212032-Maps.jpg

Roof tiles look Japanese.

What is the deal with trees with white paint on them in some countries?

Still thinking somewhere in Russia

it all feels too clean and modern for Russia, I think - Canada?

Don't know exactly why but I am getting vibes of Perth in Western Australia

The white paint protects the trunks from the sun.

How wide is that river and is the long burgundy thing on the other bank some kind of ship?

Russian cities have form for being on one side of a river with nature on the other.

I'm not quite sure what to make of the cabin-on-stilts. Why is it so unreachable? Is that a thing? If the front door is on the right, it's not opening out to anything?