Guess the City

Fine by me!

"City" means several related things, ONLY ONE OF WHICH is along the lines of "settlement awarded so-called city status by arbitrary convention or decree within a given jurisdiction or linguistic pocket of this wide world", ffs. To me it seems entirely obvious that cities which city purists insist on calling towns should also be allowed.

Happy new year to all! I pretty much never post in this thread, but I enjoy it a lot.

Thanks for your input anatol_merklich

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New Year, New City

Feels like it could be anywhere from Southern Europe to Palestine/Israel maybe?

clutching at straws here:
- no satellite dishes anywhere? They're banned in Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan... Don't know if that's a clue?
- maybe the fencing on the bridge over the railroad it a bit excessive? did lots of people kill themselves there or are the trains important (israeli trains through palestine for instance) (don't know why I keep thinking palestine here to be honest)
- extra lights half way up the light posts? (two of them with bike tyres over them) ?
- some of the cars are French brands but they're sold all over the world, aren't they.

Those garbage bins look distinctive. Perhaps designed for a particular type of fully automatic garbage truck? Not sure how to search for that though.

is that a flag hanging from top floor left, partially behind the pole? or just washing?

blue white red, more? france, holland, paraguay?

This seems to be the dumpster, of Chinese manufacture:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32346664174.html

Not sure what "hot sold in Middle East" means? Perhaps a mistranslation of a "hot seller in the Middle East"?

the train line doesn't look like middle east to me.

what's the mystery object behind the two metal dumpsters?

feels like russia or a stan to me.

interior asia

Not sure what "hot sold in Middle East" means? Perhaps a mistranslation of a "hot seller in the Middle East"?

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Misprint of "not sold in middle east"?

Possibly.. it seems the bins are of an EU standard form factor.

- no satellite dishes anywhere? They're banned in Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan... Don't know if that's a clue?

Assuming the city is in the northern hemisphere, the shadows indicate we're looking at the north side of that block of flats, and satellite dishes would be on the southern side of the building.

Just realised it doesn't matter what hemisphere it is: if this is south of the equator, we're looking at the south side of the building, and the dishes would be on the north.

Second pic?

https://i.ibb.co/L86rgj7/11a.jpg

Second pic

looks like a similar blue-white-red flag thing on the balcony there

i will nail my flag to the mask of the dominican republic

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/d/do.gif

(having second thoughts having looked again at pic 1)

Dalmatian coast (based on nothing)

I have a new hunch it's Portugal but not sure wherein

no idea. graffiti "cego!!!" "bics risk" ?

are we missing something or is these two pics just too generic to even start guessing?

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i don't know why this one is so hard. TV tower? not Almaty

I guess they look like olive trees, I suppose it'll be somewhere like Macedonia or Albania

I think it's Porto and that's the Villa Nova de Gaia TV tower

Definitely feels like Portugal but that tv tower doesn't look like the Villa Nova de Gaia, which also appears to have a red and white lattice mast and a smaller tower (which does look like the one in the above pic) adjacent

possibly, I thought the match was good enough given the distance from the tower in the photo, but you may well be right. It was the small cobbled pavement that made me think Portugal or maybe Spain.

I've google image searched tv tower portugal, tv tower spain, ... sardinia corsica italy sicily france switzerland austria hungary slovakia slovenia croatia montenegro kosovo macedonia bosnia albania greece romania bulgaria moldova ukraine turkey georgia

maybe it isn't a TV tower after all. Some of them look kinda like this one (sofia/vitosha, for instance) but not exactly. Or we're not in Southern Europe. I don't know. :(

https://i.ibb.co/m52s6sC/egg.jpg

Not often something reaches 4 clues but today is one such day

if only there was a big chief ispy book of lampposts of the world...

weird photo, looks like a digital collage from an architect's mock up. hint of blue on the left side of the car number plate - eu maybe?

the 'BUS', the P for parking and the X no stopping sign could all be the uk, but for the wrong side of the road thing that's going on.

also uk buildings are generally more finished than that one.

That looks like a jacaranda tree behind the lamp post, native to So America, but widely planted elsewhere.

what's that yellow pattern/painting on the road? some kind of optical thing that should be seen from a particular angle?

It's a box junction ("do not enter unless your exit is clear"), weirdly elongated.

don't have that in Belgium, which does narrow it down :-)

is that a german postbox?

There are several trees there that look like jacarandas, which grow in warm climates so I doubt they have many of them in Germany. The cobblestones, the jacarandas, the racial mix of people and the sort of rundown air all make me think of a suburb in a Portuguese city, or at least somewhere in Southern Europe.

Photo 2 - there's some graffiti mid-right that looks a bit to me like coracao - or at least it looks like it has a tilde over one of the letters

one of them says cego which means blind in both portuguese and spanish, and the place does look iberian

Intrigued by that large yellow boxy thing behind the lamp post.

according to my googling spanish mailboxes are yellow but tbh more lemony than that one