10 Places Humans Shouldn’t Be Able To Live (But Do)
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We all love to complain about our lives, usually from the comfort of a warm, bustling pub before returning to our nice, safe houses.
However, regardless of how your life is going, there are some places out there that make it look like the lap of luxury. Places where you can't see 10 metres ahead of you due to the choking cloud of smog, places in the far off wastes of Siberia where your glasses will freeze to your face, or even lawless hubs that make Children of Men look like a children's fairytale.
These places are a testament to the durability of humans and our ability to survive in the most extreme of circumstances, but also to our stupidity, seeing as most of the time we've got no one to blame but ourselves.
So, the next time you feel like whinging about how boring your job is, how lump your bed is or how far it is to walk to the corner shop, spare a little thought for the poor souls living right at the extremes of human endurance.
10. San Pedro De Atacama - The Tourist Trap With No Water
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. It is a physical impossibility for any rain to fall there and it never, ever has. It is so inhospitable that NASA uses it to simulate conditions on Mars and it also happens to be home to a little tourist town of the hardiest mofos known to man.
Not even microbes survive in the Atacama desert, but those tough little mammals called humans have decided that it's just the perfect place to make their home and have build a town called San Pedro De Atacama. Obviously, the locals have to drink something, and they do - they drink the water. Unfortunately, the only water that can be found in the Atacama is chock full of delicious arsenic, around 60 times the safe amount.
Not to worry though, because those tough locals are immune to arsenic.
Despite the fact that it is located in the most hostile environment on Earth, the town of San Pedro De Atacama does an absolutely roaring trade in tourists and they've even set up water filtration systems so that the less hardy tourists can rehydrate without suffering a swift and painful death.