Sorry to say this but you're in a bad type of surroundings. I mean no offense here, why do you keep on living there? I think the place is not healthy not ignoring the fact that the environment is beautiful. But your landlord seems harsher and never cared to her tenants.
No offense taken at all my friend. I hate to say the place we are living now is the cheapest place in all of Suriname we can find that will accept a family of 4. In Cambodia many people live in one-room apartments with a toilet/shower in the corner. We have lived like this too for many months, especially when in between jobs or waiting for a new rental contract.
In Cambodia, and in the Philippines too, I think it's safe to say the landlord doesn't really care how many people live in a space as long as the bills are paid and things are kept clean. Because Suriname is 15x more expensive than Cambodia, we tried to get a small rental room like Cambodia, but Suriname landlords refuse us because they say that they don't live like that in this country.
It was after one month of daily rental room hunting, getting constantly humiliated by Suriname landlords who refused us, we began to feel poor and dirty here, almost like a nuisance in this country. In Cambodia we rented a tiny one bedroom apartment with a kitchen and dining area, and this was also our restaurant and school, only $120 a month in a very busy area near downtown.
Here in Suriname it would cost us $500 per month just for rent in a small two-bedroom apartment that isn't very clean. We spent two years searching for a good rental before we finally gave up. There's a problem with ego in the western hemisphere, and also a lack of sympathy and empathy. We can't wait to return to Cambodia, life will resume again.
Dang! Sorry for cursing.
It's too expensive, it's like a fancy apartment here in the Philippines that $500. I don't really follow your journey and sorry about that but why it's hard to go back to Cambodia? About pandemic matters? I thought it was getting better nowadays, even at least can travel with health protocols of course.
No worries, we'll be back to cheap living expenses very soon, and most of all, a better quality of life. Counting the days...