🍆🥬 Suriname Needs More Vegetable Variety 🤷♂️ What Gives?
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Something that has negatively affected our health and morale since we arrived in Suriname is the lack of vegetable variety here.
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
Faced with the prospect of being (stranded) in Suriname a few years more due to COVID-19 complications, visa issues, and our youngest daughter's Cambodian passport soon expiring, the thing we are looking forward to least is the limited selection of vegetables available in this country.
Most of you know my wife @sreypov and I are/were cooks, and we owned a small cafe in Cambodia before coming to the Americas. The first few months in Suriname we pondered the idea of starting a food business of sorts here, but we quickly lost interest in the country after learning the culinary habits and difficulty of obtaining quality and diverse produce.
Basically we would need to be farmers before we could have a cafe, but then we'd never have time to run the cafe if we owned land (can't afford it and don't want it) and farmed it , so it's a bit of a chicken-or-egg conundrum. We'd rather live somewhere with cheap and abundant diverse produce so that our culinary imagination could reignite. All we can do for now is hope for better days and apologize to you all for bearing the brunt of my occasional rants.
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hi @justinparke After the storm comes the calm. I understand that your stay after leaving your homeland has not been easy at all, but they are small things that over time will only be memories but will serve as experience and great anecdotes with your beautiful family, as long as the 4 are together, the rest can be solved. a virtual greeting from Venezuela. better times will come and you will have the variety of vegetables you want.
Thanks for the kind words. I never realized how important having access to good food keeps family morale high. I do hope better times are on the horizon. !ENGAGE 40
ENGAGEtokens.hello @justinparke,
I didn't know that they didn't have a variety of vegetables and that they are close to several countries that have a great variety like Brazil, if you want variety in food you can come to Venezuela, I know it has its problems but the small cities are further away from the problems.
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I think one of the biggest problems is we lack an economy of scale. Even though Venezuela is a crisis a bit worse than here, Venezuela has an economy of scale, and can be somewhat independent during this pandemic. Suriname has around 500,000 citizens, smaller than some favelas in Venezuela.
Because of this, we lack factories and other production means, and during this pandemic we are totally reliant on shipping containers for everything other than rice and 10 or 15 different vegetables commercially grown here. We may be moving to Guyana soon, so we'd be neighbors with Venezuela. I like the idea of being able to live somewhere where we could use our crypto to pay for life. Venezuela would be much easier in this regard, because when it comes to crypto, you guys are already living in the future.!ENGAGE 45
ENGAGEtokens.Feeling bad about the situation buddy. I don't know what to say about it. And yes on the vaccine thing. Gotta do it, not like we have a choice.
Just stay alive and wait for better days is what many of us have to do around the world. Living in fear of COVID-19 is a luxury we hope to have some day. Like you said, not like we have a choice. If an opportunity comes along that means I must vaccinate to give my family a better life, I would do immediately. !ENGAGE 15
ENGAGEtokens.Can you at least move to another city?
Things would only get worse in another town, mostly because would be away from all the services we need on a regular basis, and we'd need to own a car for trips to the capital. So far we're already in the cheapest apartment in the country that will tolerate a family of 4. We are now considering a move to Guyana, which if we can immigrate to the USA one day, we'd have to interview from there anyways.
We are wondering if it's better to bite the bullet and move there before we need to. Even if the lifestyle there is nearly the same, at least a new place would be exciting for a few months. !ENGAGE 5
I see! When do you think you would move?
ENGAGEtokens.