Coober Pedy, the Australian Village Where Everyone Lives Underground: "There Are Shops, Cafes and Even Go to Mass"

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Australia is a country of great weather extremes and that forces its inhabitants to have to make unconventional decisions.This can be easily verified in Coober Pedy.This is the name of a town located in the south of the country, about 850 km from Adelaide, which has an interesting peculiarity: all its inhabitants live underground.This has been highlighted in a video by the Spanish-speaking ticktoker Angelicaladino, who dedicates his channel to t…

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In Coober Pedy, a town in southern Australia, everyone lives underground because the surface is a hell full of flies, with temperatures that do not fall from 40 degrees Celsius, and without shade or vegetation.More than a century ago, families of miners settled in the area to extract opal, a precious stone, and created a city under a mountain, with all the services and fresh air ducts to the outside.They have dormitories, shops and churches to p…