The Weirdest Places You’d Never Want to Live

Most of us live in a house or an apartment in a city or town filled with people just like us. We have our front yards and our backyards and our neighbors and friends and our homes which look just like thousands and millions of homes across the world.

But not everyone lives in such typical places. For some people, normal everyday life, and the homes they live in, are really quite unusual.

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Did you ever think it might be cool to live in a cave? Well, in Coober Pedy, Australia, one third of the population lives in caves. Coober Pedy is really an opal mine in a desert. That means that people there hunt for precious jewels called opals and sell them to make money. The problem is, Coober Pedy is in a desert, which means it’s hot in the summer. Really hot. The people there have found an excellent way to escape the heat without paying for expensive air conditioning. Caves! Okay, not exactly caves. In Coober Pedy, people dig their homes out of the mountain. That means they’ll have a three-bedroom apartment dug deep into a hill. There you go, a perfectly insulated home that stays at a comfortable temperature all year long.

Because there are so many homes underground, when you look at a picture of Coober Pedy, it looks like no one lives there! But really, all their houses are just doors in the mountain. The only downside? No windows!