Guess the City

A casual trawl through Penzance has a similar vibe but the bins are wrong.

was that wall repaired/rebuilt with different bricks? is that a clue?

The bigger clue is probably now the silver/grey van with blue diagonal

I've no idea, but am always amazed at just how UK-ish just about any random pic of a UK street is. There's nowhere else on the planet those pics (particularly the first one) could be! Maybe Picardy or Flanders at an absolute stretch...

Could it be Ireland? (asking as a Yank)

Unless someone can identify the city via its domestic bin configuration (blue bin + grey/darker blue (?) bin is unusual), there appears to be nothing else in either picture that would narrow it down much.

No, the silver van is possibly a clue but that styling is pretty generic.

Big blue bins have been the only thing so far that has eliminated any cities.

Are blue bins that unusual? We have a dark grey bin for household waste, green bin for garden waste and a blue bin for recycling plastic, paper etc

We've only got grey for household and green for recycling. Garden waste your own responsibility to take to the tip or organise specific collection.

My parents have got 5 or 6 bins I think, and as I said above I found out the other week some Welsh councils don't have bins at all now but about 6 or 7 different bags and boxes.

don't a strangely high number of these houses have new roof tiles? this with the repaired wall... was this a big disaster location maybe?

Nah more likely the council went through a roof replacement programme and the unchanged one in the middle had gone under right to buy so wasn't included.

Walls are replaced all the time - could have been due to other works.

These look like post war council housing stock of the 50s/early 60s.

The ones behind the silver van are much newer

found it

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3411104,-2.8487827,3a,75y,137.04h,90.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1suAkXfIrWTfqaxAESE9uAcw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DuAkXfIrWTfqaxAESE9uAcw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D137.04261883030372%26pitch%3D-0.5101447624751927%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

27 Fenton Close, Liverpool

Well done! You got it last night actually (Speke) but I didn't want to say anything when you were so close.

did you find the first one?

the first one is the house where my mother grew up, the second one from the right.

note the broken glass cemented into the top of the wall, something I always remember from childhood visits there, not a good place to do parkour

and here's the first one

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3414274,-2.8502535,3a,75y,181.07h,92.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sNuBPvrymqvo3VqAxidfwXQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DNuBPvrymqvo3VqAxidfwXQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D181.06591591576725%26pitch%3D-2.1355887135825498%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

Link is wrong, here's the second one

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3427428,-2.8480527,3a,75y,233.64h,81.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sc4WsnIb8t1McslwYfkjVdQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dc4WsnIb8t1McslwYfkjVdQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D233.6353384790605%26pitch%3D8.479105284002344%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

The bins were what made me stick with Liverpool, and then vibes, there were too many streets which were really similar but not quite. With the second photo, I was on Fenton Grove yesterday but not Fenton Close. Yes it sort of could be anywhere but it was like a twin

impressive! well done team :-)

Wasn't planning to do another one, but just came across this and thought it would be interesting.

https://i.imgur.com/BTTY22q.png

Old Trafford

Won’t be able to identify by the bins this time.

Quite a mix of people. There's a woman there with a backpack, tracksuit bottoms and bare shoulders, and another wearing tights and short shorts - so I'm thinking we're not in a muslim country.

Picking through piles of rubbish makes one think of Mumbai or something, but somehow the people don't give me an Indian vibe. Apart from the guy in the forefront, all the men seem to be wearing jeans...

I think this is Kathmandu

Going by triangular flags, climate and trash. But I can’t find it in streetview so maybe not. feels Himalayan though.

I was getting more of a feel of South America. The bricks above the blue yellow building above left, and occasional fragments of words

The green/white street sign is pretty distinctive!

Bogota has street signs that are on two lines like that

I get the vibe that the people are more Asian than South American, but I don't know what I'm going on there.

London, post Brexit? (sorry, jokes)

Looks a little like where I'll be next week (DRC, reinforced by the blue-yellow, too many bricks though)

very rough guess but there seems to be a sign in Kurdish ("Mezhe").

I thought I had it in the Maria Paz district, but second guessing now. The lighting is darker in the image

Its definitely Spanish speaking with the street name being Calle Csomething, and signs in that style appear to be common across Colombia though I noticed them more in Bogota. And the buildings on the left and words match

But on the other hand, there aren't many streets with trash like that or with that many people. Bogota's streetview surprisingly sparsely peopled. Maria Paz had people and trash. The building on the right is a problem. And the lighting isn't right, though I noticed the imagery is copyright 2019 and Bogota's coverage is more recent than that

I did wonder about Buenaventura on the coast, that seems to have trash and maybe port cities are a better bet

Having a punt that its Caracas.

I've just realised that this is not the most recently available street view, which is not really fair as the current view is very different

This is roughly the same view in 2024

https://imgur.com/a/8FtdgxV

Hm, why didn't that work?

https://i.imgur.com/YzYLNbQ.png

Reminds me of some streets I saw in Sal in Cape Verde.

OK, that's pretty dramatically different! I'm struck by the cars, which look like they're from the 1990s or something

Ok not Himalayan. Agree with South America or maybe Haiti?

Cali, Colombia? The painting of the green jeep is labeled "El Caleno."

Or wait, maybe it is Bogota. The building in the first photo looks like La Casa de Pique in the Bronx slum, which was demolished a few years ago:
https://www.colombia.com/actualidad/nacionales/sdi/141328/inicio-la-demolicion-del-bronx

found it: 1563 Cl. 9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nzk7KhPSgq2vhzZS9?g_st=ac

Ah good! I was at the wrong end of town, about 7 miles further west, though would never have found it even if landed on same street though with the changes. Was going to look for churches this afternoon

Weird area, I did kept second guessing if it was Bogota or not, but the street sign design was too big a factor to look elsewhere

from 2014

https://www.google.com/maps/@4.600975,-74.0837072,3a,75y,18.44h,77.59t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sDgRK-F7csYnxL8IWHCwqUg!2e0!5s20141001T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DDgRK-F7csYnxL8IWHCwqUg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D18.438167091363482%26pitch%3D12.410116189830106%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu