Guess the City

hey hey hey!

https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.5434455,-149.573821,3a,75y,258.17h,99.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipO2FTstMNMar_NldxyiZU4t4uAxGmKp9YTtHmCU!2e10!3e11!7i7680!8i3840

Papeete

bien fait damn

Correct!

Colour me impressed x infinity.

xp

tell us your secret, cherry blossom!

I thought it was south Pacific straightaway from the church/roof but nothing more than that. Initial thought it was Noumea and couldn't see beyond there. I couldn't think of anywhere else french and polynesian other than Tahiti and there's only about 12 churches in Papeete on google maps

whence the French connection tho?

seriously. I did idly think "looks like Hawaii" but never got much further than ruling out Hawaii

It kind of felt French too / I subconsciously think of most of Polynesia as French / Zelda Zonk with the assist

WOW I'm so impressed cb

That big tree-- not an arborist, don't know the species-- but it doesn't look European in retrospect, at all

idk why it "looks French", something about that red car and les camions, can't identify the makes but it just said "Franch" at me

merci et chapeau, cb!

how about this one then?

https://i.imgur.com/Tx42CO5.jpeg

it's Thames Town in Shanghai

ha, really thought I was being sneaky with that one

You were. I did suspect an ersatz but my google-fu was foiled nonetheless.

ha, I immediately thought it had to be some faux-European project in China (with Japan as a second option, but there it's more in the form of amusement parks, I think). (well, the first thing I googled was of course the Elephant House/Euro (or Buro?) Fashion combo, turns out EH is a Harry Potter thing, I had no idea)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town

this paper has a photo that's very similar to the one CaAL posted: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3544032
(see Figure 9)

it was an odd place and surprisingly hard to find (nobody in Shanghai had heard of it) - here is my alternate view photo.

https://i.imgur.com/tgVmDaw.jpg

I’m reasonably familiar with Shanghai, but I haven’t heard of it either. Not that that means anything, it’s... quite a big place.

Wait... does "Thames Town" really qualify as a city?

Shanghai certainly does

lol, i've been to thames town and would never have made the connection from either posted photo, nice job.

what gives it away for me are the air conditioners.

now that you mention it, they may have subconsciously tipped me off

Is the "Elephant House" supposed to an olde time English pub?

The Elephant House, one of the cafés in Edinburgh in which Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel

https://elephanthouse.biz/

also the plastic lettering of "Euro Fashion" is very Chinese to me

Wee Britain

haha shanghai?! my guess was going to be one of those bullshit villages in westchester county!

One more:

https://i.imgur.com/j3geVIe.png

looks like Northern France or Benelux perhaps?

was gonna guess winningen

completely different viaduct there - not Brussels/Vilvoorde in Belgium either, that one is much wider

It looks a little dusty for benelux?

The optical illusion of the woman in a sari that is in fact some kind of waterslide is distracting

"It looks a little dusty for benelux?"

this thread blows my mind. i need to travel more.

Tbh, it also blows my mind, but then I remember that I've seen some of the wildest and most remote places in the US, and I smile knowing that I could play "guess that National Forest" and beat the pants off some of you.

Tbf it can also be down to 'watched a lot of foreign films' or 'watched a lot of travel TV' or 'is addicted to Street View'. I've been to a grand total of eleven countries in my life (this includes those I've lived in), which is more or less the international average (ten, apparently).

True enough! I've watched a fair number of foreign films, though, and some of the correct guesses here still blow my mind. (I've been to eleven foreign countries)

I don't know, I'm not basing it on much it just feels further east to me

Also do they need to build viaducts right up there in benelux? Maybe they do!

Tisnt ghent?

If It's Dusty, This Must Not Be Belgium

I'll post another view tonight if need be. Don't know what the exact rules are (if any) but I figure a 24h interval is fair.

one of the reasons why i like this thread is because it's a nice way to engage with different places and cultures without having to travel.

is there a church behind the trees? (still, not enough to go on)

(the left row of trees)

One tree is usually enough by itself to go under, what exactly are u packin dude

This thread blows my mind too. I've been to 28 countries and I don't think I've guessed a single city on here from sight!

How about Stavanger?

Correct.

Here, have your bragging rights.

How'd you guess?

Norway is one of the 11 countries I've visited and it reminded me of there. Fortunately there are only what... 4 cities in Norway?