Guess the City

Pandemic or not, this fine city isn't going to guess itself

I think the way the weather looks is seducing people, that housing block front left looks suspiciously Soviet to me and there's a minaret halfway up.

yeah I was thinking either danube or volga but nothing obvious coming up

The importance of the river makes me think it's somewhere on the cruise circuit, and the only non-obvious candidate for the Volga is Nizhny Novgorod.

definitely Danube. Galati.

Galati it is! good work Columbo

I would never guess any of these but I insist on making occasional offerings that amuse me so here’s this curiosity:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mW6uXqmdPXc/TCUs70ZHt3I/AAAAAAAAAnc/OsfAudL5jrg/s1600/DSC00106.JPG

Hmmmm. I'm guessing some place with a big tourist investment in Swiss-chalet imagery. AFAIC there is no McDonald's in Helen, GA, but someplace like that maybe?

you're in the right conceptual neighborhood

Leavenworth?

yeah :)

https://i.postimg.cc/NBnZVy17/Screenshot-2020-03-17-at-16-34-30.png

wfh special

Ithaca, NY

not too bad a guess but no, not really, nope, nada,

Nikolaevsk, Alaska?

way off the mark

Ok I'll give a clue

If you look very carefully inside one of the windows of the first house, you can just make out Joe Biden standing behind a curtain (if anyone was wondering where he had got to lately)

https://i.postimg.cc/wTsfb61X/Screenshot-2020-03-21-at-12-46-08.png

I've leave Joe In The Window to simmer for a little bit, and throw in this lil ssturday sparrow

https://i.postimg.cc/wTsfb61X/Screenshot-2020-03-21-at-12-46-08.png

San Juan?

Not San Juan!

Here's another shot

https://i.postimg.cc/Ssdq5zgm/Screenshot-2020-03-27-at-13-31-07.png

Is the previous one Reading PA and the most recent one Mexico City?

Reading PA is an excellent guess, 9/10. Its more rural than Reading but only around an hour or so's drive from there.

The second one....you're in the right hemisphere, but its not Mexico

First very very closer but still not quite over the line

Second needs work to get closer

Third is here

https://i.postimg.cc/m2bsv0R6/Screenshot-2020-04-09-at-16-33-33.png

Viña del Mar?

I've never heard of Viña del Mar and had to google it! I'm not sure which thats a guess for, but its closest to the second one with the blue and yellow houses though still some ways off

Oh I misunderstood your instructions. I thought all three were for one city, and I had a hell of a time trying to think of a city that would feature all three scenes. The topography in the third photo is reminiscent of Viña's hilly outskirts (where my mother lives!), and they have views of the Pacific. The first photo had a couple of compatible indicators.

yeah I think I'm confused as to which pictures are the same city

now I'm not haha

the second one is in Brazil?

I'm gonna wager the second one is Lima, if only for the combination of apparent aridity combined with what looks like persistent cloud cover.

#2 its not Lima but we're getting in the zone now

3 unguessed (though the first is so close I might just give it!) and a now fourth, just trying to get some action going here!

https://i.postimg.cc/DZ0DFPVn/ig.png

somewhere in NZ, Nelson/Richmond? haven't found the right roundabout yet

other end of the island. Invercargill !

is #1 Gettysburg?

and let's try Quito for #2

Invercargill it is, top bins no messing about!

Gettysburg/Quito are both not bad guesses, but both are worse than the previous best guesses of Reading/Lima. Gettysburg is going on wrong direction

alright Cusco then

If Viña del Mar was really close then, unlikely as it seems, is it Valparaiso?

Lima is the closest so far for #2!

Wow... I spent a long time dropping pins on every single Smith & Smith location in New Zealand to try and guess Invercargill.

Oddly enough, I found another place (in Invercargill!) that has a Market South adjacent to a Smith & Smith, on a roundabout:

https://goo.gl/maps/jBn4brjZV4bSikEM9

Thats the same one!

Found the church!
https://goo.gl/maps/gwBTDHiDJM6iDVk77

Great work doo dah! You are now promoted to the first team.

It was indeed Nesquehoning!

I spent way too much time looking in Homestead & Braddock!

You get it from looking for orthodox churches?

xp omg YES I see it now, there's ANOTHER roundabout

My Googlemaps tour of NZ showed me a lot of aluminum siding, the entire country looks like suburban Quebec

XP - yes, though your hint about Biden helped, so I looked for orthodox churches around Scranton.

that’s impressive doo dah

don't know where that street with blue/tan/white houses is but I like the image