It is possible that after reading, your city will find a place with the most favorable conditions for life on our planet.
If you constantly complain about the weather, traffic, and other difficult living conditions in the city, then view our material about 12 locations with the most extreme living conditions where people decided to settle no matter what.
Australian Coober Pedy, which is home to about 1.5 thousand people, this year will celebrate its centenary. And really have something to celebrate, because life in this town is not easy: the average summer temperature is 30 degrees Celsius and often reaches 40 degrees. Therefore, the majority of inhabitants live there under the ground in specially dug caves, where it is much cooler. Why despite these difficult conditions, people continue to live here? And all because in Coober Pedy mined the most valuable and most expensive opals in the world.
Kandovan, Iran. The residents of this village live in houses carved in the rocks. Some of them more than 700 years – the first people settled here to escape from the Mongol invaders.
Arctic weather in the village Isortoq in Greenland, which is inhabited mainly by Inuit (Eskimos), it makes life truly extreme. So why a handful of people continued to live here? The surrounding Islands, fjords, inlets, and drifting ice are the perfect place to live seals, which are the main source of income for local people.
Gasadalur, Faroe Islands. In 2012, lived here for only 18 people. Quite possibly the reason for so low number of residents is the fact that the village with the rest of the world are connected by the only one narrow path, located on a 400-meter cliff. However, this is the place where you should definitely go up because a tiny village on a cliff impresses.
Dana in Jordan. These closely adjacent to other stone houses were built on the edge of a cliff, at the foot of which is Dana biosphere reserve is the largest conservation area in the country.
Castelluccio, Italy. Castelluccio is a tiny village, which is home to about 150 people. It is located at a height of 1452 feet above sea level, making it the highest settlement in the Apennines. The village is situated near the National Park of Monti Sibillini above the Piano Grande plateau. Rainwater that falls on the plateau through small holes – ponor – typical for karst areas, beneath the surface. If any holes are blocked, in Castelluccio, you receive a temporary lake.
Matera, Italy. Even 50 years ago, Matera was one of the poorest cities in Europe with a population of 20 thousand inhabitants living in the rock-cut close houses in the Sassi historical part of the city. In the 60-ies of all residents were evicted. And only recently came back to live two thousand people.
Monemvasia is a small island, which split from the mainland during an earthquake in 375 and Byzantine times is the city-fortress. Monemvasia connects to the mainland by a long road bridge.
The village Aogashima in Japan. Not everyone wants to live in the volcano, however, the 200 residents of the village that is located on the volcanic island, has their reasons – the land in the crater is extremely fertile. The last volcanic eruption took place here in the late XVIII century.
Al-Ayn, Oman. To get to al ain, located on a plateau Saiq, need a car with four-wheel drive and good physical preparation. Village built at the foot of the ancient stairs leading to the top of the mountain, famous worldwide for the rose petals of which make essential oils and essences.
Pitigliano, Italy. Photos of Pitigliano of the late nineteenth century do not differ from today’s. Not much can be changed in the narrow medieval buildings that hang on the edge of a huge limestone cliffs.
Huacachina, Peru. It is an oasis among the sand dunes in the area of IR, known among fans of sandboarding (approx. the author – a sport which consists in riding a snowboard on sand dunes, mounds and dunes). Huacachina is an artificially built resort. And the reason people live there, very prosaic – a large income from tourism.
