Guess the City

Looks more like Kiev tbh, the island in the middle matches up with maps in a certain way.

I could be totally wrong since I don't see any onion domes.

Can't find the aerial shot but I really want to go to northern China now. It's Harbin

松江湿地旅游码头
https://maps.app.goo.gl/prZFrAVEnC6cdszJ9

great find - I had been looking at big cities on rivers near the sea in the South but had given up

I was switching between the south and the north and the Russia comments above made me refocus on the north

Well done. Was hoping to get some idea of what all those russian style buildings are, they're not identified in google maps itself but I found a user review: Located in the Sun Island Scenic Area, Russian-style Town is a Russian-themed tourist spot and sightseeing area. The town retains a few dozen Russian-style villas and private residences. You can walk into these buildings for a visit.

The space age building on the far left, however, is completely unmarked.

The space age building is Harbin Grand Theatre

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Rj6AXAu4UaGYAdFp7

ah, the one pic i didn't look at!

scroll left for a headless person with another tiny person in their rucksack.

Wow I was sure that it wasn't China.

I wouldn't be so keen on moving to Harbin, it gets real cold there in the winter.

Smashed it!

The aerial photo is super close to the icy river one you found, a bit to the NW next to Harbin Polarland

And yeah it does share strange similarities with the Dnipro aerial shot from the other time!

Interesting.. so the architecture was done deliberately to evoke a Russian appearance. Nice find.

can't find the exact location of your pic (weird, do different countries get different pics maybe?) - can only find one very close:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7858925,126.5886307,3a,75y,88.96h,68.92t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOG3ZPhwTTjMUWLunDaWE-G59pset0GdxCdpQXK!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOG3ZPhwTTjMUWLunDaWE-G59pset0GdxCdpQXK%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya20.78465-ro-0-fo100!7i15000!8i7500

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7828255,126.5890808,3a,75y,227.25h,80.25t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP2hKL7fAoXr8xSnBzDlJSGpTAkYMvOBSy1t8nj!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP2hKL7fAoXr8xSnBzDlJSGpTAkYMvOBSy1t8nj%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya320-ro-0-fo100!7i15000!8i7500

Missed this one but, yep, Harbin was mostly built by Russian railway workers and, though it has obviously changed a lot, the historical buildings (and faux historical ones) often have a heavy Russian influence.

xp thanks! but no, I have nothing there on my map

https://i.postimg.cc/xTX7JdZN/126.jpg

Monday Morning Blues

I can do no more than state the obvious and say that it's the UK and probably England.

Nottingham

looks like some shithole in bucks or berks

Lol that has a different meaning where I am, though I don't doubt yr right.

(Bucks and Berks are two counties that form part of the ring around Philadelphia county, and both are full of both very nice area and absolute shitholes)

That feels like literally everywhere I've ever been in England.

church and steep high St are the clues here I think

i'm pretty sure it's south of nottingham

little bit twee and tudor for the midlands and north

Wouldn't rule out Ireland here

Building on the left, behind the traffic light sign, does not look English at all

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

I'm still trying to figure out what that grassy area in the center is. At first it looked like some kind of traffic circle, but then I started to think that the apparent curvature of the wall was actually fish-eye lens distortion and the wall is actually fairly straight. Still not sure though. And I can't figure out what is the in the low-lying area behind those bushes. Perhaps a river or train tracks?

Maybe non-English looking building on left in an otherwise English looking scene suggests more continental influence ?some place in Kent maybe

o.nate, yeah was thinking that too could even be another road down there

My guess is pedestrian underpass.

Yeah, I'd say it's a pedestrian underpass that goes through the roundabout.

Like caek, I don't think it's northern.

Another vote for pedestrian underpass, I'm sure of it. And that's a roundabout, fish-eye or no fish-eye. The building on the left could easily be a hotel, don't think it looks that un-English if so

Is this defo a city? Getting distinct town vibes

I don't see a Salvation Army band playing nor children drinking lemonade, so yeah, northern town is out.

looks a bit like some places near me
(warwickshire)

Bingo! It's St Botolph's roundabout in Colchester

B1025
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hjhdo4WZdkiPHyrv6

After dropping down onto a bunch of hunches I realised there maybe aren't as many roundabouts with pedestrian underpasses as I'd thought, so googled "traffic roundabouts with pedestrian underpasses" which quickly led me to a news story about renovation of St Bot's roundabout in Colchester

The strange building on the right is, rather inevitably, an NCP car park

nice work!

*strange building on the left even

bravo!

“Shithole in bucks or berks” deserves half a point imo

Yes! Tough one but thought it was gettable in one view. Or Something bossing it. Caek with a possible assist, but looking like this one was all handled in house at the end of the day

oooh, good thinking there - yay!

dumb american question--i know what an american shithole is: is colchester a shithole? With respect to anyone who lives there

Also just want to say ho much fun is it to tool around a town you've never been in, zipping down streets.

All I really know about Colchester is that parts of it are very old and Damon Albarn is from there