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Why can't we live underground, or carve our homes on the sides of mountains? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by GlueBear@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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What's stopping us? Not all of us have to, obviously, but at least some of us can live that way.

If our antiquated predecessors could sometimes manage it, I'm sure we can too. Maybe even better.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

Keeping the water out winds up being a huge problem. Either its percolating down from outside water sources and working down through the cracks in the rocks until its inside your house or its condensation buildup from the living things inside the cave house.

Personally, I'd love to live in an underground bunker because I'm a weirdo, but i would be pretty cool with some small single story house with a reinforced shed style roof with a few feet of soil and let the crass grow.