This Is the Town Where People Live Underground - Coober Pedy | World's Most Extreme
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2018
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Coober Pedy is an Australian town where half of its inhabitants live underground!
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Taking the name "down under" to a whole new level
Facts right there!
A whole new depth
@@frankboff1260 😂 hehe good one
Living down low down under.
@MichaelKingsfordGray wait seriously? That’s pretty cool!
-drops a stone down a hole
Neighbours living down there:
OY MATE, THAT WAS MY BEST TABLE!
Andizu1 omg yes 😂
Hahahahaah
Hahahahahaha😂
Drop a rock down...
...And a bullet comes up.
@@brianlanders5306 Ownership of only *unnecessary* firearms are banned in Oz.
I've stayed at an underground hotel there, it was pretty cool and you don't know if it's day or night.
If you're thinking of checking out Coober Pedy bring a fly net, they'll drive you mad in summer.
Hey!! How about in winters(coz planning to go now) and how about the accomodation. Can you recommend some
Thanks
Ditto .... it was the best nights sleep I've ever had.
A lot of those homes are surprisingly nice and have a lot of room, and they have a few churches that are really something special. I was in the outback in winter and holy moly, the wind at night and in the early morning can be freezing cold. Living underground is actually a really smart idea. Their power cost would be really low, especially with renewables.
im a city slicker and im thinking of moving to coober pedy because the cheap little houses, whats the place really like? is it very rough with lots of indigenous causing issues? everyone i speak too said they couldnt wait to get out of there even just visiting, is it really that bad? are there lots of gangs of young thugs walking around looking for trouble and break ins all the time? are the police ok? please be honest as i really wanna move to a place like this thats cheap and isolated, im sick of society and the big city
@@petejames1326"lots of indigenous causing issues"? I'm pretty sure those issues mostly started after their country was invaded.
@@chillstar how long will they be blaming captain cook for for their current troubles? the next 100 yrs the next 1000yrs? by your non answer to my original question youve basically convinced me that yes it is alot of indigenous causing problems like break ins and gangs of youths looking for trouble but i guess its all captain cooks fault right?
@@petejames1326 Holyshit Australian racism is goofy asf talking about "gangs of youths" "looking for trouble" 😂😂 You live on a fucking island how can you be sick of "the big city & society" wtf are you on about just walk to the other side of the country 💀 like bro go shrimp a barbie or whatever.
I gotta agree I mean you get away from all the storms there’s so much more more benefits to live in underground it feels like
This is the Opal town where I once lived. The dugout homes may look like just desert caves on the outside but inside, many have been created into comfy and even luxurious sort of homes..
( I met an American guy there once who originally came from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and he came to Coober Pedy in his mid twenties - he said- and hasn't left since. He told me he has been there over forty years now ( and that was back in 2016 when he told me that )...
It's all fun and games for the residents; meanwhile the Pizza Delivery Guy stands there scratching his 🤔😠
Scratching his what?
@@ohhxcake5434 balls
@@juggerswood Hahaha
they actually got a pizza shop there, we bought some when we went there last year
@@juggerswood 🤣 finally someone figure it out. You are awesome Kyhree.
Would be a great setting for a horror movie.
I don't know like pitch black maybe, Although not really horror I suppose. A lot of movies have been made there including Mad Max 3 beyond the thunderdome and the classic salute of the jugger to name just a couple off the top of me head.
Umm.. Hills have eyes.
@@grasshair7266 Good Idea
Pitch black was shot there!
Holes have eyes.
I've been looking for a place like this my whole life! All it's missing is the ability to live self sufficient (gardens/water).
And not have neighbors making tunneling sounds next to you and accidentally digging through your wall.
Me too! Me, too!
@@kishascape These are probably the quietest houses ever, bro.
I swear I had a dream about this place
bexscarecrowm, that’s wierd! I had a dream about it too then I heard about it today.
You both shut up 😒
Deadpoppin aight
Me too, it’s crazy that I got the know how now🙏
Fools, that's why i'm here!
I'm getting Fallout vibes from this.
I am getting poop pressure from this.
People in Los Angeles should start living like this considering their electricity shortages from the heat.
Yeah, but the armies of homeless would start jumping down our holes.
@@MartyInLa If the Vietcong can figure out how to prevent American soldiers from jumping down their holes you can figure out how to stop the homeless jumping down yours.
@@killman369547 the prospect of a homeless guy jumping down my hole is truly nightmarish!
It actually baffles me how the colonists (or their descendants) in the hotter areas of the Americas never adapted their homes to the climate, building the same thin-walled timber houses in Arizona or Texas as they do in New England or what have you. You'd think using all that sandstone (to dig into or build with) or clay (to fire bricks), depending on the area, would be a natural response to the harsh temperatures. No thickness to the walls, no insulation to protect from the outside heat, and they wonder why they all need AC.
@@vojtechjanda9684 great point!
Genius this is. You dont have to buy any building materials and I'm sure the land is cheap!
Nowhere near as genius as you think. Every time you dig, it's a chance for collapse. Every day, you risk not waking up due to insufficient/problems with ventilation and the lack of daylight messes with your sleep rhythms.
@@Coecoo if you built good enough you can put sky lights and ventilation is the only issue but I would put 5 vent and emergency o2 monitoring system and oxygen replacement like that's on submarines
@@Coecoo and yea under ground stays 60 degrees and it's how geothermal works
I think I’d like to live here - less stress, plus living with Australians as neighbours would be great!
@MichaelKingsfordGray seeing as I’m British, am I allowed a whinge or two? 😉
Try getting to know enough of us. We're not some kind of special breed. There are just as many jerks, awful neighbours etc as anywhere else.
A large contingent of foreigners inhabit Coober Pedy too . . your neighbours are not guaranteed to speak English .. 😁
@@DreamBelief I lived in Australia for two years. Let me just say Australians are legitimately nicer people, on average, than Europeans or Americans. Of course there’s dicks, like anywhere else. Just less so.
I would absolutely love to have a home like that.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Hahaha. Whatever. In my 40+ years one thing that I know for certain is that people that talk tough like you are always the first ones to start crying "you embarrassed me in front of my friends, (wife, family, etc.) and made me look like a pvssy." Fake tough guys like you are a dime a dozen.
Id live there
🤨
😒
how much does it cost to build a place like that
air pods A shovel
My friend did one of her nursing placements there.
It's so hot that the P plates melted off her car, but she loved the underground church.
Devil worshipers.
@Gay Vegan what Gods would you worship underground?
@Gay Vegan the Devil
@Gay Vegan yes
@Gay Vegan this video.
I'm wondering how plumbing is routed.
Pushing shit uphill🤷♂️
Just lead a pipe to one of those holes. Should last a while.
It will make a lot more sense in the future when the atmosphere starts to heat up more that this is integrated in more places where the heat is unbearable.
I like the idea, living underground with a regulated temperature and being able to create more rooms.
I guess though I'd become disorientated quickly, since I like both the darkness of the night and the brightness of the day.
Still, least I wouldn't have to worry about curtains.
Hello to Peter Carol! Thanks for the beautiful rough you sent to my brother Bill and myself.... many years ago now
Amazing. This would not only be a great place to live but you'd constantly have something to do. Plus might stumble over so opal, win win.
The spaceship is leftover prop from Vin diesel movie 'Pitch black'.
Amazing!!!
Warm in winter cool in summer
I think we're looking at the future. When the surface is baking hot, we'll all live underground.
With the holes being so dangerous is/was there any plans the work on filling them in....?
IS THIS WHERE THEY FILMED MAD MAX THUNDERDOME ? WHERE THE TALL WEIRD LOOKING DUDE WITH THE PLANE LIVED WITH HIS SON ? LOOKS A HELLOVA LOT LIKE IT.
Yes it is where it was filmed.
@@chinchilla1956 Thanks for the Confirmation
In a hole in the ground, there lived an Aussie...
An Aubbit?
1 to 45 degrees is extreme in Cooper Pedy where I live in the Hunter Valley we get -5 to 46 degrees.
Where I live the temperature extremes are -45 or -50 in winter to + 30 or +35 (centigrade)
We had 43°C last year in Germany, while having 60% humidity and got - 20°C in winter and we don't live in caves 🤔
@@RubenKelevra2 years a bit late, but you obviously haven’t encountered the Australian Sun…
The elliptical orbit of the Earth places the Southern Hemisphere closer to the sun during its summer months than the Northern Hemisphere during its summer.
Australia is closer to the Sun, hence the huge amount of skin cancer in this country.
I’ve been to Texas where it was like 41 Celsius and it felt like nothing but 30 Celsius in Australia is death.
I wish we had that sort of base around here... If you did down around here, you get clay and the water table... Of course, building underground would not be that great of an idea for here since we are subject to hurricanes and rather significant weather events that might cause low lying flooding... :)
This is the definition of Australia being opposite to every1 else
thank you
Imagine how beautiful and natural your community would be if homes and most buildings were underground.
People in Tornado Alley take notes.
@@aspieotaku3580 Blows me away people live there. Then again, it blows them away too.
@@superdutyzack living is cheap which is why but home insurance high due to tornadoes if i lived in tornado land id live underground and still have a house.
@@aspieotaku3580 Insurance isn’t any more than anywhere else... the likelihood of your specific house being hit by a tornado is low, because tornado’s are relatively small in terms of natural disasters... earthquakes and hurricanes can impact entire states at a time.
@@sheashay17 still if i moved back to Texas ill have a storm celler with a bar and a generator
i lived here for alot of my life and when i found this vid i was surprised to see thomas my grandmas husband a stape in ths town
Kinda like the people in Utah who dug into mountain sides and built houses!
I got Subterranean Homesick Blues watching this...
Feels like Flintstone
That truck at the start had serious Mad Max vibes
Reminds me of Tatooine lol
I've stayed there in July (coolest time in Australia) and the outside temperature was about 45- 50 Fahrenheit.
Which I in line w what he said. 1 degree celsius is 32 fahrenheit
I am impressed, I wish I had a cave house like that. So beautiful and cosy.
@MichaelKingsfordGray I wish I could but my life is here.
So this is where Forza came for inspiration
I see a horror movie brewing
It’s all fun and games with extensions until the whole thing collapses
I feel like living on the ground is the best idea I mean you get away from all the storms
Wonder how hard it would be to move there
Where is this town?
This is living in holes or caves not underground. That was expertly creative
Crazy !
Looks like paradise to me. I'd need a blast proof vault door and periscope though to be truly happy away from people.
Trust me, it’s an absolute shithole.
@@microchp In Florida, where the water table is high, I saw one built artificially on the surface by building a concrete house with concrete roof, windows and door on the north wall only and waterproofed and covered with soil.
This is Australia, they use celsius (not fahrenheit). So they guy says it gets cold to 1°C in winter and 45°C in summer saying it's from one extreme to the other. Ok, 45 in summer is very hot but 1 in winter isn't extreme at all, it's very mild, not even freezing. 1°C is 34 f, nobody would call that extreme.
If you get 1 degrees Celsius in Australia for an average Australian you would have to wear at least 4 jumpers
Yeah they do indeed, like 96% of humanity.
It's fancy to live this way!
The end reminds me of the movie "Holes"
Good old stanley yelnats. Takes me back to school when we read this book.
The people planing future Mars missions could learn a thing or two from these folks.
1:16 boy those australian school kids sure look rough
He did not say 1° is extreme 😂
These guys sound so laid back
@MichaelKingsfordGray why would you call me a coward ?i just said they are laid back
how do underground houses get rid of sewage?
I live in auagthella which is also in outback
0:18 crashed starship? Explains a few things.
It's a prop from one of the movies that were filmed there. Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel.
I’ve stayed in one of the underground hotels once
Mad Architects can design a whole metropolis underground
I would live there.
How do they manage earthquake?
With a name like Coober Pedy it's no wonder the residents live underground. Who would want to be seen there?
Hopefully the spinning vents are producing energy! 🙂
They should of filmed the Flintstones in these caves aha would of been perfect
can someone give me a quote, i need it for my project
I can help on that .
“Take a walk to find a work”
i can't imagine an earthquake
They're set in the event of nuclear war.
At 3:30 they measure distance in FEET ?
The Flintstones would have love this modern Bedrock 😁
Rock and Stone!
sounds awesome until you consider a cave in lol
Looks like my minecraft starter home
😫😫🔥🔥🔥
Same
Underground has the best insulation. Makes sense
After seeing this, I can see why they think there is life on Mars. Probably also underground, hey?
I want to live there
It looks like there’s a tiny human skull 💀 about the side of a gulf ball on 3:25
can somebody send me a direct quote i need to use it for my project
?
Living here would basically be like playing minecraft IRL. I could see myself being a very busy mole person if i lived there.
its like the book "Holes" only real!! lol
Not really
The Kardashian’s could never
Most people wont get the joke 😂
“I’m just simon the digger”
I like this I would enjoy living underground but since more people live underground there, I would live above them to be away from them.
Calls a 45 degree C shift extreme, but I disagree.
it was 18C at noon today and now we're getting 20 cm of snow overnight.
In my home of Saskatchewan Canada it goes from -50 to +40 every year, I would love to live underground.
45 degree C in a day, not a year dude
To me, it is responsible thing to fill in the holes once the opal hunts are completed.
i could never 🥴
I think thats pretty fckd up that they dont cover the holes over or fence them off. Thats what i call irresponsible opal mining.
If someone invades your home you have many holes to pick from
Sooo...do you buy a chunk of area and build whatever? Do you pay rent? Whats your.address?
If it's your land you know where your boundaries are, try to stay within.
Your address is the same as it is if you are on the surface.
The coober pedy fandom is dying
I have a thought on mind, how they cultivate, what is the source of food.
Nie chcialabym i nie moglabym mieszkac w Australii ze wzgledu na niemilosierne upaly, ale chcialabym spedzic jeden dzien w tym miasteczku, zobaczyc jak wyglada zycie i praca ludzi tam mieszkajacych....
Sowumm, save a life by investing in metal grates to serve as doors or hatches.
3:44 you do.
when you realize someone lives like your minecraft character >_>
*click* "yeah thats about 60ft" just casually
I want a Underground house so bad.