This Is the Town Where People Live Underground - Coober Pedy | World's Most Extreme

[@KIZZBATABOL]

Taking the name "down under" to a whole new level

[@ATart6]

Facts right there!

[@frankboff1260]

A whole new depth

[@ATart6]

@@frankboff1260 😂 hehe good one

[@kalburgy2114]

Living down low down under.

[@ATart6]

@MichaelKingsfordGray wait seriously? That’s pretty cool!

[@Andizu1]

-drops a stone down a hole Neighbours living down there: OY MATE, THAT WAS MY BEST TABLE!

[@nadroj-88]

Andizu1 omg yes 😂

[@jeksixten5751]

Hahahahaah

[@knightmare6670]

Hahahahahaha😂

[@Joemame]

Drop a rock down... ...And a bullet comes up.

[@21stcenturyozman20]

@@brianlanders5306 Ownership of only *unnecessary* firearms are banned in Oz.

[@Nat-jf2ge]

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.

[@Full_Drama777]

Hey!! How about in winters(coz planning to go now) and how about the accomodation. Can you recommend some Thanks

[@Dino-pq3eu]

Ditto .... it was the best nights sleep I've ever had.

[@tdb7992]

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.

[@petejames1326]

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

[@chillstar]

@@petejames1326"lots of indigenous causing issues"? I'm pretty sure those issues mostly started after their country was invaded.

[@petejames1326]

@@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?

[@jadesded]

@@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.

[@billyxkid5062]

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

[@runnyhunny786]

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 )...

[@thebatteries6286]

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).

[@kishascape]

And not have neighbors making tunneling sounds next to you and accidentally digging through your wall.

[@teresahiggs4896]

Me too! Me, too!

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

@@kishascape These are probably the quietest houses ever, bro.

[@newhorizon1355]

It's all fun and games for the residents; meanwhile the Pizza Delivery Guy stands there scratching his 🤔😠

[@ohhxcake5434]

Scratching his what?

[@juggerswood]

@@ohhxcake5434 balls

[@JohnDoe-fr1id]

@@juggerswood Hahaha

[@HoolheyakEnthusiast]

they actually got a pizza shop there, we bought some when we went there last year

[@newhorizon1355]

@@juggerswood 🤣 finally someone figure it out. You are awesome Kyhree.

[@TUCOtheratt]

I'm wondering how plumbing is routed.

[@roblange1445]

Pushing shit uphill🤷‍♂️

[@sylviaelse5086]

Just lead a pipe to one of those holes. Should last a while.

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

Who runs Barter town?

[@SaiyanSambo]

Would be a great setting for a horror movie.

[@grasshair7266]

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.

[@Inf7cted]

Umm.. Hills have eyes.

[@jeksixten5751]

@@grasshair7266 Good Idea

[@williecoulter1091]

Pitch black was shot there!

[@marcfisk7730]

Holes have eyes.

[@scootermom1791]

People in Los Angeles should start living like this considering their electricity shortages from the heat.

[@MartyInLa]

Yeah, but the armies of homeless would start jumping down our holes.

[@killman369547]

@@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.

[@MartyInLa]

@@killman369547 the prospect of a homeless guy jumping down my hole is truly nightmarish!

[@vojtechjanda9684]

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.

[@MartyInLa]

@@vojtechjanda9684 great point!

[@bexscarecrow]

I swear I had a dream about this place

[@hallhouse9151]

bexscarecrowm, that’s wierd! I had a dream about it too then I heard about it today.

[@pauldjdundas]

You both shut up 😒

[@bexscarecrow]

Deadpoppin aight

[@Bwaringa]

Me too, it’s crazy that I got the know how now🙏

[@ravenpawcraft]

Fools, that's why i'm here!

[@Soul_Younes]

I'm getting Fallout vibes from this.

[@inspirationalgoosebumps6006]

I am getting poop pressure from this.

[@richardpoynton4026]

I think I’d like to live here - less stress, plus living with Australians as neighbours would be great!

[@richardpoynton4026]

@MichaelKingsfordGray seeing as I’m British, am I allowed a whinge or two? 😉

[@DreamBelief]

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.

[@Jan_YTview]

A large contingent of foreigners inhabit Coober Pedy too . . your neighbours are not guaranteed to speak English .. 😁

[@coppurt]

@@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.

[@michaelatkin9649]

Genius this is. You dont have to buy any building materials and I'm sure the land is cheap!

[@Runefrag]

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.

[@bigalls3661]

@@Runefrag 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

[@bigalls3661]

@@Runefrag and yea under ground stays 60 degrees and it's how geothermal works

[@justme-ij2qy]

I would absolutely love to have a home like that.

[@justme-ij2qy]

@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.

[@elly8353]

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.

[@juggerswood]

Devil worshipers.

[@juggerswood]

@Gay Vegan what Gods would you worship underground?

[@juggerswood]

@Gay Vegan the Devil

[@juggerswood]

@Gay Vegan yes

[@juggerswood]

@Gay Vegan this video.

[@choctawnation-gc6zw]

Id live there

[@pauldjdundas]

🤨

[@pauldjdundas]

😒

[@blablablablaaaaaAa]

air pods A shovel

[@jojotoomojo8016]

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.

[@MrOrcshaman]

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.

[@superdutyzack]

Imagine how beautiful and natural your community would be if homes and most buildings were underground.

[@aspieotaku3580]

People in Tornado Alley take notes.

[@superdutyzack]

@@aspieotaku3580 Blows me away people live there. Then again, it blows them away too.

[@aspieotaku3580]

@@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.

[@sheashay17]

@@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.

[@aspieotaku3580]

@@sheashay17 still if i moved back to Texas ill have a storm celler with a bar and a generator

[@SpikeyWombat]

1 to 45 degrees is extreme in Cooper Pedy where I live in the Hunter Valley we get -5 to 46 degrees.

[@CB-gp4go]

Where I live the temperature extremes are -45 or -50 in winter to + 30 or +35 (centigrade)

[@RubenKelevra]

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 🤔

[@OwlJohlson]

@@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.

[@ALBERTEINSTEIN777]

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.

[@chinchilla1956]

Yes it is where it was filmed.

[@ALBERTEINSTEIN777]

@@chinchilla1956 Thanks for the Confirmation

[@metaladder1018]

With the holes being so dangerous is/was there any plans the work on filling them in....?

[@Hakudohshi]

I think we're looking at the future. When the surface is baking hot, we'll all live underground.

[@raymondgarlick4624]

Hello to Peter Carol! Thanks for the beautiful rough you sent to my brother Bill and myself.... many years ago now

[@nspacemonkey]

The spaceship is leftover prop from Vin diesel movie 'Pitch black'.

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

Thanks that is a pretty sharp share!

[@tonyclifton265]

how do underground houses get rid of sewage?

[@GeorgesR3452]

This is the definition of Australia being opposite to every1 else

[@williamwebb580]

In a hole in the ground, there lived an Aussie...

[@denisvalente6844]

An Aubbit?

[@killman369547]

Living here would basically be like playing minecraft IRL. I could see myself being a very busy mole person if i lived there.

[@slap_A_flamingo]

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.

[@NoosaHeads]

I've stayed there in July (coolest time in Australia) and the outside temperature was about 45- 50 Fahrenheit.

[@cryeredd7563]

Which I in line w what he said. 1 degree celsius is 32 fahrenheit

[@chizobaani4037]

This is living in holes or caves not underground. That was expertly creative

[@flybeep1661]

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.

[@patriot1724]

If you get 1 degrees Celsius in Australia for an average Australian you would have to wear at least 4 jumpers

[@seybertooth9282]

Yeah they do indeed, like 96% of humanity.

[@tonypierson1939]

It’s all fun and games with extensions until the whole thing collapses

[@robinhood5627]

Looks like paradise to me. I'd need a blast proof vault door and periscope though to be truly happy away from people.

[@thespamdance311]

Trust me, it’s an absolute shithole.

[@patrickleigh1523]

@@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.

[@sierrachoco5271]

Kinda like the people in Utah who dug into mountain sides and built houses!

[@jakeblanton6853]

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... :)

[@lienbijs1205]

I am impressed, I wish I had a cave house like that. So beautiful and cosy.

[@lienbijs1205]

@MichaelKingsfordGray I wish I could but my life is here.

[@MzMinnesnowtapop1]

Sooo...do you buy a chunk of area and build whatever? Do you pay rent? Whats your.address?

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

If it's your land you know where your boundaries are, try to stay within.

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

Your address is the same as it is if you are on the surface.

[@judgedredd8876]

At 3:30 they measure distance in FEET ?

[@the_mighty_bearcat]

0:18 crashed starship? Explains a few things.

[@elteescat]

It's a prop from one of the movies that were filmed there. Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel.

[@bigbiznisirl]

So this is where Forza came for inspiration

[@DSRQ1]

With a name like Coober Pedy it's no wonder the residents live underground. Who would want to be seen there?

[@va3cpm]

The people planing future Mars missions could learn a thing or two from these folks.

[@TrunkyDunks]

Alas, yet a again Australians get the award for the coolest and toughest people. This is unbelievably cool. A zombie movie in this setting would be dope

[@veygazgurl]

I see a horror movie brewing

[@markmorris738]

Warm in winter cool in summer

[@MrBeetsGaming]

Wonder how hard it would be to move there

[@judah.kapulare8722]

How do they manage earthquake?

[@cjwilliams8350]

Where is this town?

[@billyxkid5062]

I feel like living on the ground is the best idea I mean you get away from all the storms

[@evelyniness]

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

[@jebes909090]

1:16 boy those australian school kids sure look rough

[@GNeuman]

I got Subterranean Homesick Blues watching this...

[@WildNfree333]

No teens getting upset and punching holes in walls

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

So ...That is where the expression 'Sorry to bust in on you' came from?

[@landonivy675]

Why is that guy at 3:30 purple? Is that from the Sun?

[@tylerkozak8775]

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.

[@shawn5809]

45 degree C in a day, not a year dude

[@A-Ls1]

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.

[@clynntpotts9781]

After seeing this, I can see why they think there is life on Mars. Probably also underground, hey?

[@arthurthornton9298]

Amazing!!!

[@shariqsonindahouse9663]

They should of filmed the Flintstones in these caves aha would of been perfect

[@r-labs9357]

Mad Architects can design a whole metropolis underground

[@Luigi051]

It looks like there’s a tiny human skull 💀 about the side of a gulf ball on 3:25

[@DreamBelief]

Those people all claiming they'd live there - try looking into it. It's not all lovely caves. There is a reason many people don't stay. It's too far away from anything. I've lived in such isolated areas. There are great aspects, but it's hardly the heaven people who haven't lived there imagine. There are major drawbacks

[@InnuendoXP]

not to mention if you have a family, imagine worrying about your kids wandering off & slipping down one of the old mineshafts.

[@BNJT]

That truck at the start had serious Mad Max vibes

[@joshgould9329]

sounds awesome until you consider a cave in lol

[@alpineflauge909]

thank you

[@mikeprime5028]

These guys sound so laid back

[@mikeprime5028]

@MichaelKingsfordGray why would you call me a coward ?i just said they are laid back

[@teagan652]

The Kardashian’s could never

[@roseg2239]

Most people wont get the joke 😂

[@aspieotaku3580]

Reminds me of Tatooine lol

[@MoiLiberty]

This would not work in earthquake ridden California desert, right?

[@braxx_0480]

Looks like my minecraft starter home

[@平-i3w]

😫😫🔥🔥🔥

[@JustSomeDude720]

Same

[@jc31312jch]

0:34 Interesting...

[@peterpiper487]

I would be afraid the sandstone would eventually give way and crumble into the home. If I lived there, I think I'd have more solid wood structure to hold up the massive weight of the sandstone. Otherwise, it should nice. One drawback would be the fact that you have to spend most of your life indoors.

[@Azriot]

can someone give me a quote, i need it for my project

[@kresler]

I can help on that . “Take a walk to find a work”

[@agnieszkawijata2364]

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....

[@myopinion5508]

Couldn't live like that..paranoid it would collapse

[@tristinbulko6786]

The end reminds me of the movie "Holes"

[@chongy9895]

Good old stanley yelnats. Takes me back to school when we read this book.

[@syntheticsandwich190]

The coober pedy fandom is dying

[@tracelee7332]

Wise man built his house into the rock❤💫

[@alexanderk.3056]

It's fancy to live this way!

[@anatolicousin1108]

“I’m just simon the digger”

[@adamender9092]

He did not say 1° is extreme 😂

[@irenearrenquin4241]

The Flintstones would have love this modern Bedrock 😁

[@Skunnt]

This is where I’m going when I leave the U.S.

[@gullf1sk]

Australia's full mate

[@alexsmith32012]

They filmed mortal kombat there but be ready for a million flies if you do go there.

[@adamgibson473]

This is what the Americans called "shithole".

[@alexsmith32012]

@@adamgibson473 Eh you go there to make money not to live but cool stuff to look at when visiting

[@shawnstatzer95]

To me, it is responsible thing to fill in the holes once the opal hunts are completed.

[@XiaoMingXing]

These people literally out there playing Minecraft in real life.

[@seybertooth9282]

I was thinking Rimworld.

[@ktown8139]

Only an Australian would call 1*C in winter, “cold”, & “extreme”! We call 1*C in winter, “balmy”!!!

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

How do you like 40-45 in summer.

[@mrgedits4478]

bro I'm from the deep south of New Zealand and even here it doesn't often drop below 1 degree daytime temperature..

[@ktown8139]

Gus Driving In Australia I’ve never had a summer that hot, unless humidity was included. I grew up spending the summers with my family on a really big, beautiful swimming lake, so as long as we could jump into to water all day long, those temps were fine!

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

@@ktown8139 www.farmonlineweather.com.au/climate/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=16007 this shows the variety they get. Quite low temperatures at night due to being in the middle of nowhere in the desert, no cloud cover holding heat in.

[@Bob_Lob_Law]

@@gusdrivinginaustralia6168 Unsurvivable. Inhospitable. This about heat is you can only take off so many layers. You can always add more however.

[@imnotabeetleiswear6549]

Thomas Hammermeister, born underground with a hammer in his hand. Finished homework and mined a 100mX100m home

[@jayantakhatoniar2322]

I have a thought on mind, how they cultivate, what is the source of food.

[@Moonlakes]

i actually want to live there. you would quit the system, definitely

[@A-Ls1]

6'666 Subs with 1 video? You wouldn’t. They have McDonald’s and industrial labor jobs under there.

[@RatBoyDunce]

Siahj The Sleepy Sorcerer don’t think I saw a single maccas when I was there

[@briannamorales600]

LMFAO did the guy at the end just say that people have dropped each other down the holes?? 😭😭 sounds like an easy way to get rid of someone you don’t like tbh

[@HarryJSteele]

Sounds great until you have an 'infestational creature' dig its way into your bedroom.

[@HarryJSteele]

@@jacoboc2244 You say that like humans know all the creatures of the earth.

[@HarryJSteele]

@Bob The Knob or even, the surprise earthquake.

[@placeholder3986]

Harry Steele Australia doesn’t sit on the edge of tectonic plates so no earthquakes

[@HarryJSteele]

@@placeholder3986 ...not yet.

[@undeadcenturion402]

They're set in the event of nuclear war.

[@gowthamgutta]

Feels like Flintstone

[@donniecatalano]

If the climate keeps going this way, a lot of people around the world will have to live underground

[@janetgraham-russell4476]

Are their corridors between dwellings and businesses? I wouldn't want to have to pop up for some milk if it's so hot or cold.