Guess the City

you could buy a lot of so-so things for a huge stack of 500 ruble notes back then!

I heard that in Irkutsk in the mid-1900s there was something like a 1% chance of any individual being murdered in any year.

Have tried to find some pictures of Irkutsk for this thread before but it would be a bit too easy, nowhere else really looks anything like it.

gezundheit!

too many unique-looking cities and not enough cities that make you think they're somewhere else

Weymouth isn't a city?

Particularly disallowing UK towns that are not actual cities seems off, given that this is a very local and arbitrary distinction that pretty much doesn't exist elsewhere in the world?

ok here's something different

http://stuff.jklol.net/i/guess.jpg

They may take our lives, but they will never take our local and arbitrary distinctions that pretty much don't exist elsewhere in the world!

https://i.imgur.com/f3fKvbR.png

Not Cat City

buenos aires

it's definitely not Cat Town, the eye-patch is a bourgeoisie-poser dead giveaway!

It looks like it could be a cemetery, and cats in cemeteries always make me think Paris, but the bench doesn’t look like Pere Lachaise.

It could definitely be Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5880847,-58.3929371,3a,15y,58.77h,93.44t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPq2onB3bzCNfi6Rop7OXn9YLQsOvw9nMBYYFiu!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPq2onB3bzCNfi6Rop7OXn9YLQsOvw9nMBYYFiu%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya36.317368-ro-0-fo100!7i7200!8i3600

Jim (and ShariVari) correct by looks of it

some monumentally massive gravestones there!

yeah cats in a cemetery always makes me think of la recoleta first, though cats in a cemetery seems to be a common thing. ive never been to buenos aires incidentally, but i did plan a solo trip there many moons ago, and have read up on the city a bit

Yep Recoleta! A place I have been but don’t think I formed particularly strong memories of. Are you supposed to remember things?

Looking at pictures does bring the memories back. It’s very prestigious real estate, with cats.

I think I saw a cat inside of a glass-doored crypt in there

very prestigious real estate, with cats.

new board description

This can likely be reverse image searched very easily but I am sure ye can work it out without that.

https://i.postimg.cc/rFx4ZTPc/94514493-8-DF6-4-AC4-AA60-941-AFB3882-C1.jpg

nottingham

It’s not Nottingham.

Warsaw.

Correct!

did this building by some miracle survive ww2 or was it rebuilt?

It’s Warsaw University of Technology which was damaged in the war and restored in the fifties, I think, with a glass roof added later.

https://i.postimg.cc/fRnRMxtX/D49-A03-FB-E059-4-CC5-AC05-BCA3-A84-A7-FB6.jpg

It’s really impressive.

damn! beautiful

I kinda want to know what prompted caek to suggest Nottingham.

hey you started it

Nottingham

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 15:39

First time I've got one! What a beautiful building.

Am I OK to post an image?

As in, I've never quite worked out what the rules are (or if there are any!).

I think the only "rule" (unspoken) is to not post a new image until the current one has been guessed, so you're good to go!

OK, cheers! Absolutely someone will get this right away because I've missed some sigh saying the name in massive capital letters...

https://i.imgur.com/JE2l9Qw.jpg

Some sign[ ffs.

Bridgetown, Barbados is my first thought.

Not a million miles away but not Barbados, no.

Curaçao?

I mean, there is that famous harbour view of Willemstad with the painted houses - but the mountain in the background, no idea

Curacao just dished out a 5-0 spanking of Saint Vincent & the Grenadines the other night

Thought it might be Bo Kaap in Cape Town but perhaps not quite colourful enough and that's not quite Table Mountain

Mindelo
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1GZwfRXe3NLU8juD6

Mindelo, Cabo Verde islands

Boom! Nice work. How did you find it?

A fair bit of image searching "colourful buildings africa coast"

Had a dream that I posted an image here and no one got it after weeks of guesses.

Originally I thought Bozhmy Novmanor but the shade of green on one of the fences didn't feel quite right

I'd like to post pictures to this thread but I'm a bit of a luddite. What do you guys do, take a screenshot or share a google maps streetview to imgur and then link it?

I take a screenshot and then post to postimg.cc

possibly of interest to members of this group, some of these are effectively "guess the state"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/trump-biden-geography-quiz.html

i was 15 for 21, had a run near the beginning where i got 5 wrong

but they also gave me a part of brooklyn which trump won by 81 points (!!!) which seems tricky