Guess the City

(to Neil S, in case there was any doubt)

That's a Spanish no parking sign surely. I'll go Albacete.

Stop sign says Pare so Latin America is likely

100% South America, so thats the continent. Now to find the street

I've been thinking Andean plateau because of the way it seems cold but I've only been to Bolivia there, and only a handful of places there, and this isn't one of them. But the cars (old & small) match those I saw there. The pickup truck suggests something in the USA's orbit, and that this is not total poverty (so again, probably not Bolivia).

no cars like that in a reasonably affluent European country I don’t think

(or (some of) what Euler said)

Agree that the cars absolutely aren't well-off European, so I guess Spanish South American. But it's still cold, people are still wrapped up. Argentina? Uruguay?

That's why I said Andean plateau. It's chilly to cold there year round, at least in many places, because it's so high up.

Unless this photo is from the 90s, I'm very confused by these cars. I did a bunch of street drops across Latin/South America and Bolivia was the only one that remotely matched

I swear to god I've seen those banners before, I thought maybe they were a cellphone provider name I'd seen elsewhere or something but it doesn't seem to be the case

the "accent mark" does look like a text bubble

yeah, what about that banner? on this one more letters are visible

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

I thought the red telephone box was key but now I'm not so sure

Breakthrough! xp

FUCK

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

lol xp

I figured out the banners. It's for ANTEL, the state telecom company of Uruguay.

xp fuck!

& lol

looool

fuck & lol
even when I was 17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe,_Canelones

https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5245801,-56.282197,3a,75y,112.79h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_H7Fb2gxrnHQZ3bn0_QOGQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I knew it was Madrid

If you can guess a pop. 20,000 town in Uruguay within less than 24h based on two adjacent photos, then perhaps the true hard mode is a random nondescript highway in the middle of nowhere.

last few times I tried geoguesser it was always like that: some random dirt road in rural Brazil or Australia or Russia, zero text anywhere, often no buildings

The first photo was impossible though, even if we'd been able to figure out the logo

The church was first on the list of "cathedrals in Uruguay"

I am less impressed with movie spies now I have to say

Respect to the owner of the green car. Maybe it belongs to the parish.

Looking at street view now that little green shed has moved

The church was first on the list of "cathedrals in Uruguay"

True. I should have posted the Museo Spikerman second and the Catedral last.

First photo was at least enough to lean towards Spanish/Spanish heritage I think

perhaps the true hard mode is a random nondescript highway in the middle of nowhere.

Insofar as "random highways" I think this might actually be somewhat easy

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50886930893_294d6ee71b_k.jpg

Reykjavik

Yep

Hafnarfjörður to be exact

Figured somebody'd immediately be like "that is a smelting plant"

Was there a few years ago. That's on the way from the airport to the city, it's huge

That pipe mounted to the side of it is like half-a-kilometer long and it gets smaller and smaller and it's pretty transfixing to see as you drive past it

Okay, hope this works.

https://i.imgur.com/1gxVPuL.jpg

The last few have burned up almost all my remaining brain cells and this already looks another tough nut to crack

Another one with distinctive streetlights. I got nothing so far other than 'looks like somewhere in Russia'.

I was thinking somewhere in Eastern Germany but this is a totally unscientific hunch on my part.

Plenty in that pic that could be dublin 12 tbh so im not seeing much to grasp at

I was going to semi-seriously say Detroit

I'll post another later today.

Do they have cars like that in Motor City? Looks European to me, but I don't even have a driver's licence, so don't mind me.

That streetlamp is like a beautiful graceful heron

Xp no, the cars generally argue against North America

Currently, around 300 trolleybus systems are in operation, in cities and towns in 43 countries.

The visible electrical wires also look vaguely Eastern European to me. Maybe more Central European since this place doesn't look too run down.

The banner on the lightpost looks, to me, a lot like the banners you see on college campuses promoting the college?