I believe not only Bagan but around the world , the family or resident can be divided into 3 category of economy . 1st is the richest , where they got more money than what they need and can buy most everything that they. 2nd category is normal family which most common , this type of family is they got what they want in their life. They might still financially struggle but they still have basic thing in their live which is shelter , food and cloths . The 3rd category is the poorest. This category just can live on very basic thing , sometimes they have those basic things and sometimes they dont have.
In Bagan , most people belong somewhere either category 2 or 3 and many of them is in between. Why was in between , because they have the basic but at the lowest point of basic needed. Its can help because most of them depends of their lower salary pay , some of them working hard just to get pay 1usd perday even they have many family to feed.
Lucky I have a chance to stay with some good friend in they humble shelter when im staying in Bagan.
THE SHELTER
Most of their shelter being made by themselves using bamboo. Most of them has basic 1 small room , place to hang with family and a kitchen. If you have more and bigger home , you ll be consider richer in the the neighborhood.
The transport that most of them has is motorbike. But it ll be convenience to move around Bagan with motorbike .
Chilling day be like :
One of famous job the women do here is making cloths with weaving. Most of them still do the traditional way , but surprisingly the quality of their clothes is very good. The problem , they have to sell their cloths with lower price to the rich. They even have to work with them with low salary because they dont effort to own the machine.
But not everyone in Bagan live with poverty . A lot of them is successful especially in tourism site at that time before pandemic. But, it was so sad to hear what happen to this country especially in this pandemic and military coup. I hope everything will gonna be okay.