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

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

― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Monday, June 14, 2021 11:11 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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.

Yes, I was looking all over the place, but I kept coming back to Hermosa Beach, since the street signs were the right shape and color.

lol I was just coming back here to suggest Hermosa having finally found examples of burnt orange streetname signs above the stop signs there.

caek mentioned Hermosa! Why didn't we listen? :-)

possibly because i repeatedly said i don't think this is southern california! haha sorry. and good catch!

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.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek),

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

― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob),

The answer has been sitting here in plain sight for the last four days!

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.