Guess the City

... I still don't know. Is this raised & covered train/tram stop the only landmark in the neighborhood?

Yeah there doesn't appear to be an awful lot to differentiate these 4 views in terms of clues

Is that a + sign on the white sign?

- I'm guessing it's a T and the last letter of the name of the stop?

- This community still has alternate-side parking (blue sign on the third picture with a red circle and 1 \ 15 (no parking on this side of the road from the 1st to the 15th of the Month) )
so... that third picture was taken in the second half of a Month and this last one (cars parked on the other side) in the first half - however, this doesn't help as there's no list of places in Belgium that have this type of parking (that I know of)

- Is there a street name sign on that house in the middle of the last picture?

- those three houses are awfully small - are they 19th century original workers' terraces, maybe near a coal mine? (but then other ex-industrial locations like Charlerloi also had terraces I guess)

- are those parking spots just behind the corner in the last picture? (also doesn't mean anything, you can park your car there and then go into that dark entry to the stairs and up to the train/tram stop)

- stumped

Wherever it is it’s pretty grim.

it's grim up Belgium

https://i.postimg.cc/zf3ct58S/chet.jpg

There we go...

https://i.postimg.cc/28b3DLGP/tyu.jpg

and one more

oooooh, abandoned tram station Chet in Charleroi, Belgium

https://www.google.be/maps/@50.410628,4.4637833,3a,75y,109.48h,86.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sS8KT3l5aQMrsjJc3quGLCw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

good one! I had checked all the stations in Charleroi except this one - the rails aren't on the map anymore :(

more info about this tram line https://www.urbex.nl/metro-leger-charleroi-ligne-chatalet/

I love that the street name is Rue Grand Central. And at least in the process I learned how unlow Wallonia can be (was looking at elevated railway sections in nearby Namur not Charleroi).

thank you, cherry blossom - that was a great search, even though I had no actual idea for most of it.

I spent a lot of time in Charleroi, Namur, and surrounding cities, but didn't ever find that tram stop. I guess it didn't show up when I enabled transit overlay in Google Maps, since its decommissioned.

https://i.postimg.cc/Gm0NcKqM/mcga.jpg

I was reading up on the city, and it appears there are a lot of MCGA types there now

it's just a cocktail bar but their attempt to get your attention worked :-)

https://i.postimg.cc/QN0Cs7xT/ow.jpg

Drama

drama? is that a clue? (this doesn't scream Belgium at me like the last one did)

Not a clue just a title but its random

Looks northern UK

It's not a council building but 'brutalist council building uk' image search brought up a story about the council debating whether to demolish it:

https://goo.gl/maps/CsyG7sgdHNv5nmcu8

That was quick

Ok, here is one, this one is not in the UK.

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

the sign on the building probably helps - if only I could read it

I’m going to say “somewhere in Asia”.

🤔

looks like my very limited experiences of Malaysia over 20 years ago, so I'm going to say... Penang

the mural and surface parking vibe makes that looks a lot like broadway in chinatown in los angeles ...

but the air conditioners are wrong for north america, and so is the dinky little truck and the licence plates, and i can't find the spot in LA on streetview. so yeah i think this is asia.

those A/C units look like Singapore but rest of picture looks too downscale.

I was thinking LA's Chinatown too, maybe Bernard St (that leads to the northbound 110 fwy), but the license plate on the silver car looks like the wide, skinny ones that they do in Europe. I'm wondering if it's a European Chinatown.

right? it looks chinoise rather than chinese.

Looks like something you might see in a Southeast Asian country. I think Penang was a good guess. Reminds me of city street scenes I've seen in Indonesia.

My first thought was Malaysia or Indonesia but I did wonder about it being a Chinatown outside of Asia but I got more of an air of South America rather than Europe if so

View #2

https://i.imgur.com/B7PG2uc.png

There's a Malaysia or Indonesia feel about that one but definitely still in wild guess territory

what ARE we looking at though? why are the benches in the middle of the field? what are the wooden things around the field?

wooden things look like a fence.

that raised bricked pathway to the right hasn't been weeded in sometime.

those streetlights look wild--possibly solar powered?

is that a police car? a blue and yellow checked police car?

To the right of the white structure holding the packets of smoked mackerel? I thought that was a taxi cab, but it could be police

yeah, it has something on the roof that looks like a blue light and the colours, albeit through the fence, just reminded me of those yellow and blue police cars (which are a british thing going by google image search, although nothing else there particularly says british to me, apart from the overall dreariness)

can we rename this thread "guess the depressing nondescript city"?

that's a terrible thing to say about bradford

i had forgotten that this was part two.

are those Palm trees begins the horsebox full of kippers?

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can we rename this thread "guess the depressing nondescript city"?

― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 12 August 2021 20:08 (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglin

says Boring, Maryland

Probably still a bit early for #3 but I'm going to be away from my laptop for 24 hours or so

https://i.imgur.com/zf715NQ.png

Still looks kinda like Indonesia to me, except for the absence of people and traffic.

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Hard to tell, but the writing on the white building looks like it might be Arabic. And yet the grey skies, puddles of water and green grass of the second picture hardly screams Middle East. And the writing in the first pic looks like it's Chinese. Colour me confused.

The white pointed arches look pretty distinctive - Islamic influence?