Guess the City

it's certainly intriguing. there are a lot of very nice hillsides on the eastern side of Australia, I'm learning, but apartment buildings on them? Not so much. Or I keep missing them. But where, then?

Second view needed, or a bit more time with this one?

My gut says it's NZ and somewhere in the Hutt Valley but I can't get any more from the pic.

... can we get a hint instead of a second pic? :-)

https://i.ibb.co/QHGDCtm/Screenshot-2021-12-09-at-19-49-34.png

intriguing part 2

- nearer the equator than we initially thought, based on the very short shadows?
- ACIFIC
- those two houses straight ahead have very eastern influenced looking roofs
- guy on the right looks rather white/american?

... is it like some Western enclave/american military presence in an otherwise Asian country, maybe?

or Hawaii, even?

i clicked a street in Honolulu that looked very similar indeed. but I think the right-hand steering wheels suggest not?

(similar to first pic, I mean)

Father Christmas in summer suggests southern hemisphere

man I nearly thought I got it, north of Hobart, Tasmania, but the 4+ apartment buildings aren't there either

4+ storey

that kind of foliage would die within six months in Tassie

I was convinced it's Cairns but i couldn't find it, so now I'm not

I'm pretty sure it's Samoa

I have zero familiarity with the area, but from some streetview trawling I do think it looks a lot like Northern Queensland.

I've pretty much eliminated Noosa/Noosaville and also Townsville. Wondering about Mackay. The hill/mountain in back of the first shot looks typical of the Glasshouse Mountains which run down the eastern seaboard, a series of heavily eroded volcanic plugs which look like old teeth from a distance. We are an old continent so pretty much all of the topography is worn to bits.

... is it like some Western enclave/american military presence in an otherwise Asian country, maybe?

that's what it looks like to me tbh, but on a pacific island

my general-area guesses have literally all been wrong though, so maybe use it as a "not-there" guide lol

table might be onto something

isn't the steering wheel on the wrong side for Samoa?

Yeppoon, Queensland: https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.1272813,150.7438388,3a,75y,178.04h,78.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sA9ej1_Elxk9mW_wyAitiPQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DA9ej1_Elxk9mW_wyAitiPQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D11.725892%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

where my cousin lived for several years, I'm considering a restraining order against the nefarious forces of ILX

Nice one!

Wow!

StanM, Samoa uses RHD steering wheels, apparently— both types are legal, same as American Samoa.

I got it by googling "pacific restaurant queensland logo" and this was among the hits
https://res.cloudinary.com/tf-lab/image/upload/restaurant/28406387-48f9-44eb-ad62-d011a5609721/0dbd294e-203b-47c9-bc33-c8fb9029c88e.jpg

(in the distance in the second pic)

Nice, there was a Pacific hotel in Cairns too, but the sign didnt look anything like that one.

guess the obscure town

https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.1315767,150.7461552,3a,75y,35.34h,81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPZfPrJHkYOs1ogbwnkXb7A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

For anyone curious about the original view, it was over here a few streets away on the other side of the city

it's not a city!

those multi storey apartment buildings have thrown me off - I've only looked at big cities because of those

https://i.ibb.co/qWdYJwQ/Screenshot-2021-12-13-at-12-06-32.png

Playground

let's ask matttkkkk first - Matt? :-)

100% not Queensland

Thank you Matt! :-)

church spire, bridge with Roman arches, a row of similar looking houses... England? France?

Is it a city?

Looks like England anyway

It looks like South East London to me, maybe looking South(ish) from the big lump that is Forest Hill / Sydenham Hill towards Catford? Can't find the relevant basketball court and wouldn't have expected lewisham to aint things orange anyway so either its a non-municipal court (eg a school or something) or it's different borough or its a different place altogether

that (railroad?) bridge with all the arches seems like it could be a big deal I'd think?

Pretty standard for the UK I would say. The playground looks quite old, in my experience the ones in london (in the more affluent areas at least) are more up to date, less so as you go further north.

It's not a city but it is accrington

https://maps.app.goo.gl/LwgAU2aUhuAWkqcx6

bravo!

I couldnt see that viaduct on my phone, had to look at it on a bigger screen. But if you look at the list of 'railway bridges and viaducts in the UK' on wikipedia then right at the top there you'll find accrington. Didn't take long to locate the park in relation to the bridge

Well done - haven’t been there for years and I thought it was more red brick than I thought looks on the pic.

do we have a thread about one's personal definition of a city? I feel like this has been coming up a lot lately and it's kind of interesting to think about my own criteria

Well done or something (!), would you have gone through the whole list?

Quite possibly not ledge, tho I did get a twinkle in my eye when I saw it, the picture having quite a northern town feel

nice!

Good work, thought we were due an easier one (even though some really tough ones have fallen with very little resistance of late!)

ooh, nice one or something :-)