Guess the City

I think most of the junkyards like that in US have been emptied out as old junked cars have been shipped to China for the steel. You used to see them a lot more driving cross country in the '80s.

you have never driven through the western us i take it. anyway ok it's not the us sheesh.

I'm sure they still exist. Just that I remember as a kid driving past seemingly cars stacked alongside the side of a highway for miles. I think the prices of scrap steel have changed the economics of that. To me it does look like something that could be in the US, though the cars don't look quite right. I'm wondering about the line of trees in the distance. It reminds me of how trees grow alongside the sides of irrigation canals.

map is right— there are still plenty of spots like this in rural parts of the western US. tbh it looks a lot like far Northern California, but it isn't, as has been established.

i think it might be asia somewhere. maybe even japan (the sidewalk is weirdly good to me).

looks like Japanese cars too

Fukushima?

I wondered about Hokkaido initially but the light didn't seem right, but then thats pretty flimsy either way

ha i def spent a while looking up 80s japanese minivans to see if anything matched that grey van on the right side of the lot, with little to no success

that minivan is part of the reason i think japan. not 100% but it looks like one of these. seems like those sold pretty well in australia too.

The fences are too low for the U.S., tweakers would be all over that place.

The van at the right looks like a Mitsubishi Delica which would be fairly rare in the U.S.

Somewhere in Australia?

Pic 2

https://i.postimg.cc/9Q6m40ZZ/Screenshot-20210421-231840-Maps.jpg

thinking new zealand now

NZ or Tasmania

obviously a racecourse. for horses, probably.

a picture search for racecourses near junkyards brings up some odd results.

On the first picture, how usual is it to have a blue line in the road? I feel like I don't see that.

Its a red herring, we've had this before. Or Something's phone adds this blue line to every image!

(every image from Streetview, that is)

Oh! Weird.

It's literally in their screen name ha ha. Sorry, late to this game.

a picture search for racecourses near junkyards brings up some odd results.

Nothing to suggest that the racecourse and junkyard are near each other though

Not the racecourse in Hobart or Launceston as far as I can tell, but they both have the same type of railings, so this could be Aus/NZ.

i was getting results for londonw33d.net in my picture search.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=racecourses+near+junkyards&t=ffsb&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

lots of junkyards, some racecourses, no weed: https://yandex.com/images/search?text=racecourse%20near%20junkyard

Is the sheep grazing on the racecourse a factor?

You could say it's a bit of a clue. I honestly thought the racecourse would make this quite getable. Do people want another pic?

The racecourse does feel like a pretty big clue, especially with the sheep. Lets go a bit longer before next pic, feels like we should be able to get it from here

I don't know a ton about racecourses but I feel like they don't usually allow sheep on them. And the grass looks a little worn too

The racecourse does feel like a pretty big clue, especially with the sheep

Chepstow is the only racecourse I know of in Wales.

A list of New Zealand racecourses:

https://www.progroupracing.com.au/new-zealand-racecourses

(all with Google Earth photos)

no sheep anywhere though

the sheep may be red herrings then

No they're definitely sheep

I'm not adding any help to identifying it but I have a question about the two small brown (fur?) things that seem to be attached the the fence in the foreground. They look identical to each other.

(almost anyway)

tbh it's not a question either. Just weird.

I have a question about the two small brown (fur?) things

I think your monitor resolution must be playing up, those looks like red herrings to me

btw i'm referring to these two, not the larger grey things

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_HSCtbm77K4/YIbYAwcKnTI/AAAAAAAAA7U/AKeaYNTtrIYtuFYaZGf4UlJMKhN_pRqqACLcBGAsYHQ/s157/Screenshot%2B2021-04-26%2B155806.png

I think I need a walk outside

I think someone used the clone tool

I just thought 'fuck it I'll go through that list alba posted but actually search the names in google maps for hi-res pics', luckily it was the second one on the list or i might have died. So, Invercargill!

https://goo.gl/maps/6FF6xn9TFopBmpvf6

Woo!!

Finally!

I thought somebody would get it fairly quickly after Alba's link especially when the introductory paragraph starts "There are 52 racecourses in New Zealand, from Ascot Park at Invercargill in the South..."

ha. I thought Dunedin and there was one that looked a bit close but didnt check Invercargill

https://www.google.com/maps/@-46.3863389,168.3496917,3a,75y,164.15h,84.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP1BxIZSMlVOn7XLGRvZx7g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

the scrapyard

does Google Streetview automatically clone tool stuff? those two identical things on the fence are there in several angles
https://www.google.com/maps/@-46.3947882,168.3941559,3a,75y,152.89h,78.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCH-4FpA0Y7lkhvKmfpSxNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

oh, it does - the white curvy bit on the fence above is doubled too

it'll be part of the stitching algorithm

Invercargill is possibly the ugliest place name I've ever heard in my life.

Truly hope the Maori take over again and call it by its rightful name, Waihōpai