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RE: 👩🌾 Slo-Mo Gardening & 🛃 A Brief Illegal Entry Into Thailand
However, Thailand needs factory workers from Cambodia, and they would prefer to have illegal immigrants over registered foreign workers with visas because they can kick them out of the country without pay whenever they want.
It really baffles me reading this and I keep asking myself why the animosity between these Asian countries. Yes, they differ in some ways, but still.... I should really learn more about the history of the Asian continent.
My wife is in the process of getting a new ID card so that she can cross like this once the border opens. For me though, I will have to get stamps and full-page passport visas each time I cross, so it's likely I will fill my passport with visas long before it expires. It would probably be cheaper and wiser to get a one-year Thai tourist visa for myself, but first I'll have to research it a bit and see if I am eligible.
Ok, is it cheaper to shop there or because it's closer for you guys or maybe can't find certain items in Cambodia?
The 1-year-visa will also keep your passport from getting over stamped, because getting a new one for u is also a long process, no?
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.
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