Guess the City

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willimantic

yeah

I should've found a better picture I just like those frogs and wanted to put them in this thread (b/c I'm never gonna be able to guess anybody else's city that's for sure)

So I just learned that those frogs have to do with The Great Frog Battle of 1754:

Legend has it that in 1754 in the hamlet of Windham in the Connecticut colony, the Battle of the Frogs commenced. No, we're not talking about the French. It was literally a battle pitting frog against frog. At the time, a number of men in the area had departed to fight the French and the Indians. One hot night in June, the remaining men in the town heard screeching and began to fire wildly, believing they were under attack. The next morning they discovered that the sounds had come from frogs that were either battling over the last remnants of water in a drought-stricken pond or just ticked off at each other. They never really knew why the whole episode occurred, but hundreds, some said thousands, of frogs died.

Source: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2040762_2040769_2040778,00.html

http://i.imgur.com/LRTCKvf.jpg

^i recommend opening it in a new tab. it's quite a sight.

sau paulo

on the right track

buenos aires

you were closer before

the image went byebye

oh damn sorry let me repost

http://i.imgur.com/R6puCOp.jpg

i cant be googling brazilian cities ive never heard of before that apparently have millions and millions of ppl in them its against my religion gonna have to punt this one to someone else

am interested in reading up on their zoning regulations tho

here's their groovy bus system:

http://i.imgur.com/wnukGRV.jpg

nice, looks v 70s futuristic

porto alegre?

not porto alegre, sorry.

here's their urban plan:

http://i.imgur.com/0xsCPyy.jpg

groovy zoning:

http://i.imgur.com/o1c4sMq.jpg

turtles all the way down

more turtle:

http://i.imgur.com/TkcSaad.jpg

turtle worship requires recycled offerings:

http://i.imgur.com/Wa5UIE9.jpg

Curitiba, though I'd never heard of it before either

Yes that's it! A bit of a mecca for sustainable urban planning.

i want to go to there

A couple of pictures from my current location:

https://s28.postimg.org/45euo9o5p/20161209_163751.jpghttps://s30.postimg.org/arav4396p/20161209_164518.jpg

https://s30.postimg.org/dkgar6hk1/20161209_172407.jpg

https://s30.postimg.org/eggn3bekx/20161209_172752.jpg

...but where in the world am i?

The one time I went to Moscow (1989!) we saw a stadium which I remember looking just like that. But My guess is that there are stadia which look rather like that in every major city in the former Soviet Union? But it's rare enough for me to see anywhere on this thread which I even think I recognise.

Most of the big Moscow grounds have been upgraded in the last ten years or so. This city has kept the League Two vibe alive though!

A couple of additional clues:

Despite the flags looking slightly like a shahada in the pic above, they are green irl. The team they are associated with is not particularly good but arguably punches above its weight.

The time zone is closer to Tokyo than to Moscow.

It's currently minus 16 and minus 27 with windchill.

https://s27.postimg.org/c9x93jk0z/20161210_112027.jpg

Harbin? Or did we do that one recently?

It's not Harbin.

Tim was on the right track with the former Soviet Union.

Novosibirsk?

Very close!

Vladivostok

Getting further away.

Tomsk?

It's Tomsk! Jewel of Siberia!

somebody do bishkek next, bishkek looks awesome

how is siberia in winter

It's pretty cold, tbh.

Will drop below minus 40 next week but i will be back by then.

btw there are some Russian and Central Asian cities with beautiful stadiums

ive seen -40 in vermont (the temperature where fahrenheit and celsius converge!)

http://i.imgur.com/5GYW9fq.jpg

I actually went to the trouble of finding one that won't give you the answer via Google Images

nice photo

Norilsk?

Gary, Indiana