Last Updated on January 7, 2021
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A town where the dead outnumbered the living
Have you ever seen a city with 17 cemeteries? In Colma, California, you will.
The number of dead people is higher than the living by a thousand to one. The authorities were the reason because they decided to relocate the cemeteries from San Francisco, so all the dead bodies were reinterred in Colma.
Before the 1980’s, the jobs available in this town were only memorial makers, gravediggers, and florists. But later on, other professions started to appear. The Motto phrase of this town is “it is great to be alive in Colma!”
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