Wikipedia agrees!
According to a report released in 2014 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhuhai is the most livable city in China.
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
My mom used to tell me I was the most livable kid in my grade
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
Yeah it often gets these kind of plaudits, for me the best thing about living there was the street barbecues, but the local govt police closed them all down. It's the border town to Macau like Shenzhen is to Hong Kong, so instead of factories you have triads, semi-abandoned wives of international trade guys, seafood restaurants (all the fish is from the Pearl River estuary, leading to v. high levels of thyroid cancer)Still liked living there more than Beijing or Guangzhou though.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 January 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
I wanna do oneThis might be easy, idk
http://flic.kr/p/2koWXAG
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50799157128_9e1a7f74b8_b.jpg
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
So a French-speaking place, hot climate but not tropical?
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 January 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
black & silver number plates are pretty distinctive
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 January 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Not sure if this is pretty easy or not that easy, anyway, here you go.
Zhuhai is the first entry in this that I've never even heard of before
― cherry blossom, Monday, 4 January 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
1.5 million people, that's more than Munich or Milan, but it doesn't rank in the top 50 for China.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 January 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
Somewhat notable for the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau bridge system, which according to wp "is both the longest sea crossing and the longest open-sea fixed link in the world.
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
is fgti's Port Louis?
― rob, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
they seem to have the black & silver license plates
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 January 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Port Louis is an excellent and incorrect guess
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
Victoria, in the Seychelles?
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
my guess is Madagascar, also a former French colony in the same region. is it Antananarivo?
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
(the licence plate seems to match as well)
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrhKs2ejdVxXXKCVLGpMLZTNf5ykxFA8k59Q&usqp=CAULycée Andohalo
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Correct!
Other angles:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2ABAE9P/cathedrale-catholique-d-andohalo-antananarivo-madagascar-2ABAE9P.jpg
https://travel2madagascar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bigstock-In-The-Streets-Of-Antananarivo-101524019-e1498467221265.jpg
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Very cool, one of the places I've wanted to visit more than most.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
That second one is "the other cathedral", wrong image sorry :)
One of my closest friends took a trip to Madagascar some fifteen years ago to shoot a documentary on a musician who was there. He had the best time!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 January 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
He told me a funny story that involved a pig but it's pretty gross so I won't repeat it
It is a pretty fucked up place, from what I can tell, given the nature of the colonialist extraction economy that continues to fuck everything unabated. But all that biodiversity!
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/mknj9xJL/ok.jpg
Blue
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 05:50 (three years ago) link
Want to spout English seaside cities as I'm sure that's what it is but I've no idea which
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 January 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
Jim OTM.
Is it Hastings / St Leonards?
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link
I never have the slightest clue with these but this looks familiar. I want to say Penzance, but worried it might be too hilly. Possibly too built up as well.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
It looks like Anglesey too but again, too built up.
Swansea
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
Haven't found the blue house yet but there's a hill in the right place, that looks like the civic centre on the left and it would be devon across the water.
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
Good spot Ledge - quick google for Swansea steep hill leads me to https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4049845 - Constitution Hill.
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
"In the early 20th century, the Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Railway operated up and down this hill."
Phwoar.
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
I had managed to persuade myself that the land visible across the water was in fact a cloud formation. Bah. I do try my best not to think too much about north Devon.
― Tim, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:56 (three years ago) link
I have never been to Swansea but whenever I see a photo of Swansea I think "that looks like exactly like Swansea"
Wasn't sure how easy/difficult to make this one
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
That looks pretty
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:27 (three years ago) link
https://cdn2.wanderlust.co.uk/media/1004/shutterstock_1281338881-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1440&height=0&format=auto&quality=90&rnd=132246828580000000
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
I was going to say Iceland but too many trees.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
Also, driving on the left?
Port Stanley?
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
yep. i think finding a decent city / pic to guess is harder than the actual guessing.
― ledge, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
It felt like Stanley right off the bat, but those Rover vehicles clinched it
― cherry blossom, Friday, 8 January 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
Feel like somebody will get this one very quickly
https://i.imgur.com/L3Lufe3.jpg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:27 (three years ago) link
Helsinki?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:46 (three years ago) link
I think that's Helsinki, based on (a) the sign you can see from behind bottom left saying Helsingen something and (b) the brick tower on the right.
― Tim, Monday, 11 January 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
Was thinking Helsinki too.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
the ferry port right in the city and the island in the bay are also characteristic, if we're right
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
I got helsinki based on 'tapiola' on one of the buildings but took me ages to confirm, the brick tower is erottaja fire station.
― ledge, Monday, 11 January 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
yeah it's Helsinki
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 January 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link
That was interesting - I've never been to Helsinki and I imagined it as a modernist / International Style wonderland; although it looks nice I'm a bit disappointed to see quite a lot of neoclassical / 19th century gothicish architecture.
― Tim, Monday, 11 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
My experience w Helsinki and Finland in general is that the interfacing of of old and new architecture is spectacular. Tallinn, too
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 January 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
I've visited once, and there's a lot of monumental Hanseatic architecture, redolent of Hamburg or Copenhagen, along with some excellent modernism. The huge central station marries the two.
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link