"Where am I?" Game

[ursus arctos]

Albania?

Montenegro?

Turkish Cyprus?

The number plate looks like it might be yellow, which would be unusual for a European country on the Mediterranean.

[Fussbudget]

Not in the right area so far. A little further down the road closer to that blue house:

[ursus arctos]

Intriguing

The pickup is from this Scottish engineering company, butt it really doesn't look like Scotland

https://www.global.weir/

[Balderdasha]

I thought I was onto a winner when I found the logo on that truck which is from Weir Group. Unfortunately they seem to be located approximately everywhere across the globe: https://www.global.weir/locations/

[Balderdasha]

That stop sign is used in loads of places but not everywhere.

"India, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Indonesia, The Philippines, Pakistan, The European Economic Area, Fiji, Singapore, and the United States use the standard version of the sign."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign

[Fussbudget]

Christ, I didn't even check that company, I assumed it was going to be some tiny local contractor without a website. Well, we're definitely in one of the countries on that list (lol)

[Fussbudget]

Here's another view from slightly further into town (it's not very big):

[Fussbudget]

Well, we're definitely in one of the countries on that list (lol)

The list on the Weir website I mean. Not the list Balders quoted, or indeed any of the other countries mentioned so far

[San Bernardhinault]

I've not been to Scotland often, or recently, so I wouldn't trust my recollection of the place generally. But I'm pretty sure it's not in Scotland.

[ursus arctos]

My money is Australia, perhaps in a settlement flush with mining cash.

Perhaps Sits will have some useful local knowledge.

[S. aureus]

Namibia

[S. aureus]

Here's our church:
https://goo.gl/maps/HamYF7xh8HXAS2Ay8

(Luderitz)

[Fussbudget]

This should help narrow it down:

[Fussbudget]

Ha, no need for that last one! Good work Staph. It is indeed Lüderitz in Bavaria Namibia. That place looks incredibly eerie

[Sits]

Doesn't look at all familiar but there are some weird and wonderful mining towns out there. I don't think Kalgoorlie is old enough.

Staph is probably right.

Good to see the thread in motion again.

Edit: obsoletified by posts I missed.

[S. aureus]

Very eerie indeed. As does the nearby diamond ghost town, and there was a concentration camp nearby too.

Moving on to somewhere that appears a bit more welcoming.

[Fussbudget]

A bit more context about Lüderitz/!Nami#nus here, I thought it would make a nice follow-up to caja's incongruous colonial architecture. The street names are in keeping as well, the church is on Kirch St, that old disused railway on Bahnhof St and the street in between is Bismarck St.

Kolmanskop which is mentioned at the end of the article is worth a look as well (ha, Staph got there ahead of me again)

[S. aureus]

Let's look the other way, too - from a spot a bit towards the Budget van.

[Fussbudget]

Meanwhile the new one is... somewhere in America? Those red brick buildings remind me of Hopper paintings so I want to say somewhere roughly in the North East but I suspect it could be almost anywhere in the country. Not New York plates at any rate

[Fussbudget]

Or indeed another country *rolls eyes*

That last picture was overly helpful but I'll leave a chance for others to make their own way there

[ursus arctos]

The balconies are not typical for the Northeast

[ursus arctos]

So, the balconies reminded me of Montréal, but the signage was clearly in the wrong language.

That turns out not to have been completely off base, though I do wonder how we ended up here.

[caja-dglh]

It is either Canada or the Midwest. BMO doesn't have any branch network really outside of IL, WI, IN. And it doesn't really look like one of those.

The BMO branch is the red circle on the far side of the road, three down from Threadwork, sort of behind the stop sign.

[caja-dglh]

The plates look pretty Ontario / Quebec to me as well.

[caja-dglh]

Ontario it was