Guess the City

(xp) Very wise.

I was there at the early days of the Card Factory empire story. I worked for a company called Power Plus that at the time had the contract do the leccy installation stuff where they were opening up shops 15 metres from every Clinton's Cards in the North and aggressively undercutting them and putting them out of business. They got a lot bigger since then, the founder Dean Hoyle sold them for £400m about 10 years ago.

or something PI is on a hot streak right now!

I've got a lot of time on my hands

Good curries in Stoke is all I remember.

Stoke on Trent it is.

I thought the initial terrace might be too hard but couldn't tell. It felt like Stoke but at the same time if felt like both nowhere. Looking round it, it started to feel like this isn't anywhere it might be, and that only leaves Stoke.

Leaving in Card Factory in Bonus Beats might have been too big a clue, but refinding the original street even where I knew its location was tough, so good work to Or Something in finding that

looks a little like Bosom Manor to me

― map ca. 1890 (map),

Whats Bosom Manor?!

it's from a bit where Americans do British-isms to "hilarious" effect

I've been combing through Stoke trying to find that terrace with no joy. The raised ground in the background reminded me of looking from Stoke towards Newcastle-under-Lyme

I should have done a couple moves down the street to include that, might have made a touch easier - especially as people were in the right ballpark early on

Bosom Manor was coined by silby, iirc, to make fun of the endless churn of tv & film born out of nostalgia for the British aristocracy (your Downton Abbeys etc.), not to mock British-isms.

Yeah but now it just gets deployed when Brits talk about TV shows or celebrities that the American poster hasn't heard of.

It's a bit too LOL Funny Foreigners tbh.

Okay, I looked through some old posts and you're both right. I guess I retconned it to make into a more useful joke. Also: apologies to NA, who actually came up with the original.

much obliged guv'nah

anytime m'lud

Don't mention blood pudding.

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Time for a new city!

An improvement on Stoke-on-Trent for sure.

Lol funny foreigners ban not a great fit for brits tbh imo

xps my kind of town that

Im mad but its hardly as obvious as seattle

Oslo?

I think Oslo is flatter than that

First thought is it looks like a lake somewhere in the mountains, possibly in Asia or South America.

sorry about "Bosom Manor" folks!

I support the bosom manor meme strongly in all its forms

I also took absolutely minus zero offence from it.

Bosom Manor was coined by silby, iirc, to make fun of the endless churn of tv & film born out of nostalgia for the British aristocracy (your Downton Abbeys etc.), not to mock British-isms.

for a second I wanted to say Vancouver, but no.

Also, taking offense at "Bosom Manor" is absurd, it has nothing to do with "lol foreigners," it has to do with Brits on this board being like "oh this person played the hilarious maid in a show that was on for one year in the 70s for which I'm nostalgic" and USAmericans being like "y'all crazy"

it's incredibly funny, too, makes me smile every time i read it.

I fell way behind on this thread but the latest pic reminds me of KL. Where is our Malaysian contingent?

(or Singapore?)

xxp the Bosom Manor stuff isn't offensive at all (to me at least), just lame and unfunny, but then I might just be a humourless Brit so carry on!

Also, taking offense at "Bosom Manor" is absurd, it has nothing to do with "lol foreigners," it has to do with Brits on this board being like "oh this person played the hilarious maid in a show that was on for one year in the 70s for which I'm nostalgic" and USAmericans being like "y'all crazy"

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tbf i did actually mean it as a sort of dig at how many photos of samey british flats we've been seeing lately itt but the same criticism could be leveled at any country's cities for the most part.

Lol funny foreigners ban not a great fit for brits tbh imo

Happens a lot on ILX does it?

Bosom Manor is quite amusing but not really fitting for a row of 2 up 2 downs in Stoke I'd have thought.

Anyway, first thought here was somewhere mountainous like maybe Switzerland but I've checked the Lake Geneva cities and it doesn't appear to be any of them

it looks pacific to me, id guess asia

Yeah, I thought that too.

Looks like Japan maybe? Nagasaki?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vMjctkopsCqeAAoW6

Sokcho, South Korea. After scouring almost every coastal city on the Asian Pacific. First guess was way off, kudos to the above for pointing in right direction

I thought it was a lake so I spent some time looking at cities on lakes in Asia. For a little while I thought it might be Lake Suwa in Japan.

Sokcho it is, or 가슴 매너 as it is known locally

I fell way behind on this thread but the latest pic reminds me of KL. Where is our Malaysian contingent?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli)

Presence was missed, the sleuthing on Cheboksary was exemplary

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Friday

Tough one. I have nothing except Asia

The park and the girl make me think US

Indianapolis?

It does look like a Midwestern river town.

Perth?