It's not darkest Africa, or Haiti, but it is sufficiently outside the normal trade routes to not have routine, inexpensive access to components that most of us here take for granted.

I totally agree. Trinidad & Tobago isn't a poor country. It is a petro state (oil and gas) in the Caribbean. GDP per capita is 20K USD. That is middle income.

"Developing world" was the version one euphemism ago. A developing world embedded engineer.