The Great Canadian Montreal or Chicago quiz

[kool maudit]

So this was kind of fun yesterday, but in trying to follow up on MolsonExport's suggestion of a Montreal-Brooklyn edition, I found that they just don't look as similar as their scales and typologies might suggest.

Sure, the walkups and all that, but whereas Queens is just a little bit more visibly "New York" than Toronto, Brooklyn is quite a bit more than Montreal.

But then I thought...

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[J.OT13]

Whether or not the cars have plates at the font gives it away.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Whether or not the cars have plates at the font gives it away.

Damnit you're right.

[SkahHigh]

You’ve got extra stuff to hide in pics 3 and 9

1. Chicago
2. Chicago
3. Montreal
4. Montreal
5. Montreal
6. Chicago
7. Chicago
8. Chicago
9. Montreal
10. Chicago

Edit: Pics were switched

[kool maudit]

Ah well, I'll leave 'em up just for interest, but that's a hell of a difference given Street View.

[Denscity]

So then Vancouver with Los Angeles?

[Zeej]

This one was awesome. Found it pretty tough - deliberately tried not to look at license plates:

1. Chicago
2. Montreal (those cinder blocks though)
3. Montreal
4. Chicago
5. Chicago
6. Montreal
7. Montreal
8. Montreal (Westmount)
9. Montreal
10. Chicago

[JHikka]

These are neat ideas for threads but, yeah, the license plate, or lack thereof, is a big giveaway. Black bar-ing all of them might resolve it.

[MolsonExport]

1 chicago
2 mtl
3 mtl (identified)
4 mtl
5 chicago
6 chicago
7 mtl
8 chicago
9 mtl
10 chicago

[MolsonExport]

time for a Jacksonville-Toronto quiz (may the greatest skyline win)

[kool maudit]

4 is actually Chicago, and so is 8.

[kool maudit]

4 does look a hell of a lot like one of those views you might forget about around Lincoln or something (the street name is also Chicago-like), while the part of Westmount shown in 8 looks a lot like Evanston.

I had thought 6 would be trickier, like something around The Boulevard, but I guess it's recognisably Chicago.

[Zeej]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

4 is actually Chicago, and so is 8.

Is 8 not the corner of Ste. Catherine and Clarke?

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4846...7i16384!8i8192

Edit: looks like you pointed it out in your above comment.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Zeej

Is 8 not the corner of Ste. Catherine and Clarke?

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4846...7i16384!8i8192

It is, my bad, Molson said Chicago and I was 'correcting' backwards.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Zeej

This one was awesome. Found it pretty tough - deliberately tried not to look at license plates:

1. Chicago
2. Montreal (those cinder blocks though)
3. Montreal
4. Chicago
5. Chicago
6. Montreal
7. Montreal
8. Montreal (Westmount)
9. Montreal
10. Chicago

Only missed no. 6

[kool maudit]

I had thought no. 10 might get called for Mtl, but no...

[kool maudit]

Chicago has very utilitarian fencing compared to Montreal

[Zeej]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

Only missed no. 6

Gah! I figured 6 was maybe Outremont along the 51 bus route.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Zeej

Gah! I figured 6 was maybe Outremont along the 51 bus route.

Very similar vibe https://goo.gl/maps/nYfmdeDouxk9CCGs5

[rousseau]

I figure no one is going to get #1 wrong. The architecture, the fences in front the yards and the boulevard with grass and trees in the median are all unmistakably Chicago.