Guess the City

https://i.postimg.cc/QCCG0Zrs/y4.jpg

Heat

Hm, thought the graffiti on the building on the right would be useful, but just seems to be some initials.

Tells us it's somewhere the Roman alphabet is used at least

Can't quite figure out what's going on with that building -- clearly occupied (towels hanging off some balconies) but many of the windows are missing? Partially abandoned?

Going to have a wild stab in the dark guess - Luanda

it’s this building in Lunik IX in Košice, Slovakia

https://www.teraz.sk/regiony/kosice-vsetci-testovani-na-novy-kor/460123-clanok.html

fuck, I've been to Košice! just for a few hours on the way to Michalovce, still should really have made a better guess.

oh wow - that was fast

how do you possibly look at that and go "oh, kosice slovakia"

it looked a) extremely poor, but also b) very (Central) European (the foliage especially), which made me think that it might be a Romani neighbourhood (the people in the picture seemed to fit in with that) (also, we have had a different Romani neighbourhood in Bulgaria (?) last year iirc) - googled and pictures of Lunik IX came up

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6965896,21.220741,3a,75y,223.89h,90.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-MjwvwQIEjBnt_YLs5nw9Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And the SV link here

Even with picking one of the less distinctive buildings I had a feeling it might go quickly!

But maybe not quite that quickly!

took me a while, but this is the spot:

https://goo.gl/maps/JgKsVcrVt7jJ1aMT9

shit romani are not very well taken care of are they - sorry for u.s. dumb

I read recently that things have turned around a bit in Lunik IX since 2019 with the introduction of a new mayor. Though I also read there are a number of anti-romani walls in different parts of the city - couldn't see one here but then Lunix IX is a stub and doesn't connect to the rest of the city

xpost - this explains it quite well: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/04/roma-in-europe-11-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

I love the use of this thread to shine a light on such things tbh kep 'em coming

https://cdn.planetradio.co.uk/one/media/60ed/cd25/7b99/1f70/aec6/f2b0/IMG_2913.jpg

Haha this is a good one.

Looks like a place that's obsessed with the American flag, but the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...

ha!

definitely Nicosia this time

the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...

Dying laughing at this

Nottingham finally

Hangzhou

the one time I went to Hangzhou it was so foggy I couldn't see more than 50m in front of me

the one time I went to Hangzhou it was so foggy I couldn't see more than 50m in front of me

Yeah, thats what threw me at first too, this is as close as I could get.

https://i.postimg.cc/wMF4sVx7/han.png

Lol I walked past this the other day, should've posted a pic here myself, v good

thr building on the right has a word beginning with pha, isn't that Korean?

Not I'm this case, I'm pretty sure it's part of the facade

Guys! Those buildings are so northern England I'm practically vomiting at how easy this one is.

Is it a movie set? What’s with the fake NY subway entrance?

Yes.

glasgow?

Yes! Glasgow as NYC for the new Indiana Jones film.

https://anglotopia.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/featureimage-12-scaled.jpg

I think it played NYC for The Batman as well.

It's new York in house of mirth

Yes, it is. Also another recent film with Meryl streep in it. Can't be bothered looking it up though.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh! good one - never would have guessed :-)

Hope this works...

https://i.postimg.cc/T3XnsWMz/clue1.jpg

off to the big book of bridges again

I've been there - do I still get to guess?

Let's not - hint: I'm from Belgium so it's either in or near there :-)

I mean it screams Netherlands but

but?

looking at a lot of Dutch cities, Arnhem is the closest so far but it's not right

close

I’m also recusing myself

but it’s very close