Guess the City

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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?

I'm drawing a blank! I don't really have enough confidence in my hunch. The figure in the poster looks incredibly familiar but then I look again and its an indistinct blob

Let's have another one then
https://i.postimg.cc/q7w18d3L/Screenshot-20210928-115511-Maps.jpg

Should've cropped that

yeah looking like Australia to me

hahaha what is that ski jump thing in the middle

I was wondering about that too, there's also no blue line which has me at sixes and sevens, unless the ski jump thing is obscuring it

white dot to make up for it

That arch bridge looks big enough to be listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_arch_bridge_spans

Novosibirsk

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9942746,82.9230981,3a,15y,138.97h,57.25t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPTuq5v-cSbHMB9DizAsW2ivizt7gRFigDwVStr!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPTuq5v-cSbHMB9DizAsW2ivizt7gRFigDwVStr%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya200-ro0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096