Guess the City

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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

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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.

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

blue

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.