Don't think it's Seville or Southern Europe because people seem to be well wrapped up, despite the fact that there are leaves on most of the trees therefore it's not winter. So it's somewhere with a colder climate I'd say. Plus the little green shelter says cold to me. The 'a' flags should make this easy, but are proving resistant to my google searches. My first impressions are a well to do northern European city - but the "taxi" sign is a bit lo-fi. Trees look quite distinctive too.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
There is a palm tree (queen/king palm common name) on the left, so not too far north.
― nickn, Friday, 29 January 2021 01:37 (three years ago) link
Bahia Blanca?
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 January 2021 01:38 (three years ago) link
Can see a couple other palms, looking closer.
― nickn, Friday, 29 January 2021 01:39 (three years ago) link
Yes you're right - this one is confusing! But those trees lining the street are strange - I guess they're like plane trees and have a bit of a latin city feel to me...
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
Reminds me a bit of some parts of Mexico City.
― o. nate, Friday, 29 January 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link
I have been to that cityI've seen the banners and I remember thinking "that A is irrelevant to the city name"The only places I've been to that look like that are in IberiaThere is a busker playing guitarIt is Spain, I think it's Madrid
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
*waits patiently for the DM to resolve the turn*
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link
Madrid makes sense - palm trees, and yet could still be coldish in spring
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
That shelter looks a little dus
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 08:25 (three years ago) link
I'm not sure the shelter feels right for Madrid but I've never been to Madrid
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
I’ve been to paradise...
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 10:33 (three years ago) link
My first thought was Zurich but also, weirdly, has the feel of Ciutadella on Menorca.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 29 January 2021 10:39 (three years ago) link
If only we had a list of all the places FGTI had ever gone, this would be much easier.
― Tim, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
God, idk. In the deep background there is a storefront that looks very Latin America, or like, El Paso.
Coming to this game after playing Geoguesser every day feels like putting on a straitjacket and sitting in a waiting room (I'm not complaining, just describing)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:11 (three years ago) link
@ Tim I have been to all 48 states except Arkansas
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:15 (three years ago) link
marseille?
― plax (ico), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
The green shelter kind of looks like something you'd find in a French park. Only I don't think this France, so I'm extrapolating to Latin countries - but I don't think Italy or Portugal so I reckon northern half of Spain is a good guess. Unless it's some wealthy southern bit of South America, aaaargh!
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
That streetlight looks very short
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:22 (three years ago) link
Almost stunted, so the air could be a little on the dusty side
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
I think it's Zaragoza
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:36 (three years ago) link
I think there's a clue in the trees lining the road (plane trees I think). They've been treated in a particular way - central trunk cut out and branches growing up around the stump. I'm sure I've seen that but not sure where. Not France, again I think Spain.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
Or Portugal?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link
Maybe! But the scene all looks a bit tidy for Portugal. Tons of park benches, a council with money.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link
Also very flat: if it was Portugal it would have to be in the north, and it's hilly up there
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
I do feel like I saw a few trees like that in Seville - likewise the red and white blocks
― nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
I ruled out Portugal because the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate. The place might be "untidy" but the sidewalks are spectacular
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
"the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate" is too beautiful a line *not* to have been in Robert Ashley's Private Parts.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 29 January 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link
"The poster has made the thread look stupid."
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
(ref to my fave line in "Perfect Lives", "the sculptor has made the horse look stupid", not a commentary.)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
I'm really invested in knowing where the hell this is now! I'm sticking with northern Spanish city
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
Will post another view anon. This is hard mode, admittedly.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
Going completely against the crowd and trying Cairns
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
Wow. I'm in Oz, so will have to think about that one.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
https://i.imgur.com/GGHninQ.png
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
Wish I'd waited for that pic before trying Cairns
― or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
Was about to say. Those trees lining the road: surely not Aussie.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
Bucharest?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
Spain or former Spanish colony
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
Nah, it's too tidy for that. :)
Our churches are quite different too.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link
(to Neil S, in case there was any doubt)
That's a Spanish no parking sign surely. I'll go Albacete.
― nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Stop sign says Pare so Latin America is likely
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
100% South America, so thats the continent. Now to find the street
― cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
I've been thinking Andean plateau because of the way it seems cold but I've only been to Bolivia there, and only a handful of places there, and this isn't one of them. But the cars (old & small) match those I saw there. The pickup truck suggests something in the USA's orbit, and that this is not total poverty (so again, probably not Bolivia).
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
no cars like that in a reasonably affluent European country I don’t think
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
(or (some of) what Euler said)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
Agree that the cars absolutely aren't well-off European, so I guess Spanish South American. But it's still cold, people are still wrapped up. Argentina? Uruguay?
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
That's why I said Andean plateau. It's chilly to cold there year round, at least in many places, because it's so high up.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
Unless this photo is from the 90s, I'm very confused by these cars. I did a bunch of street drops across Latin/South America and Bolivia was the only one that remotely matched
I swear to god I've seen those banners before, I thought maybe they were a cellphone provider name I'd seen elsewhere or something but it doesn't seem to be the case
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link