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Underground homes in Coober Pedy, Australia (lemmy.world)

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[–] Gennadios@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not that fantastical, it's resembles a small town and has aboveground buildings as well. The underground dwellings are mostly rented to tourists nowadays.

Few things I remember from there around ~10 years ago:

Coober Pedy literally means 'White Man's Warrens' in Aborogeni.

You have yo register your ID to buy alcohol and are limited to 2 beers/1 spirit per day because the aborogenies keep getting tourists to buy them hooch.

The 1st part pf the Vin Disel Riddick Epic 'Pitch Black' was filmed there and the full size spaceship prop is still in place.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You have yo register your ID to buy alcohol and are limited to 2 beers/1 spirit per day because the aborogenies keep getting tourists to buy them hooch.

Was researching this and yeah, It seems to be a pretty big issue though why full legalization is such a problem eludes me