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Old 10-30-2007, 11:36 PM   #45
ZenGum
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Originally Posted by Aliantha View Post
The only houses in Australia that are underground in any way are those which are 'cut in' on a steep slope but I wouldn't call that a basement, or maybe the people who live in caves...but they're not really basements either.
They're not really people either ... ever been to Coober Pedy?
(FYI, this is an opal mining town in the middle of the desert where most people live in mines that have been modified into houses. Much cooler. But filled with people on the run from something else, its all a no-second-name cash-economy, watch-your-back scene.)

Lots of old houses in Adelaide have cellars, presumably for wine and other storage before air conditioning.
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