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RE: 👩🌾 Slo-Mo Gardening & 🛃 A Brief Illegal Entry Into Thailand
I think mostly it's because it's an economy of size that they can offer cheaper items. In Cambodia things produced by manual labor that can't be replaced my machine are cheaper than Thai equivalents, but there are very few industries that haven't been mechanized. You could get a haircut and buy and a massage cheaper in Cambodia, but Thailand has massive factories and farms that produce things in such quantities and scale that Cambodia could never compete.
It would cost a wee bit more to live on one-month visas, but not much more than the transportation and food costs of going to the capital for a one-year. The bigger problem is that Cambodian one-month visas are a sticker that takes a full page on the passport, and replacing that is a cost I'd have to factor in as well.
Ah, sounds familiar and makes sense. A lot of "luxury" products and foods in Suriname are normal and more affordable in the Netherlands, because the Netherlands grow and produce themselves, while Suriname needs to import more. On the flipside a haircut and massage are cheaper in Suriname; I know a lot of people doing those whenever they're in Suriname.