Bit off topic but people often come to Australia on working holiday visas - for anyone with reasonable economic means their trip is generally planned with more emphasis on the
holiday part than the
working part.
You can get a 2 year extension on the visa if you complete 88 days of agricultural work in approved remote areas - I worked at a pub in a town with a population of 70 in the early 2010s and met plenty of backpackers there -many a German, French, American, Irish or Canadian WHV holder who worked by day on local stations and at the pub by night.
You can only earn a certain amount on that visa so it’s essentially cheap labour for often menial kind of tasks, targeted to areas where there just isn’t a workforce - bad actors can absolutely take advantage but the bulk of employers I knew all participated in good faith and the travellers got to massively extend their stay for 3 months of work like fruit or veg picking, driving machinery during harvest on broadacre cropping farms, some working out on a station as a couple where the owners/managers would do the more technical work and the backpackers would assist, usually the female helping with the kids and house so the parents could both work on the property, and the male backpacker outside too - maybe rock picking in paddocks, mending fences and yards, completing “water runs” to check dams, bores, tanks water levels and cleaning troughs or when they were lucky, being able to assist in more exciting jobs like mustering on motorbikes. Obviously men and women can all do both but that is generally the arrangement - most I met really enjoyed getting to experience a lifestyle that even lots of Australians who grew up here never get to experience (or don’t even know exists). Check out some “outback ringer” on YouTube if it’s available to you,
a docu-series about bull catching which shows some of the more extreme “excitement” one might witness on a station, then something like
this from a backpacker which is a more day to day example of what it could be like.
Anyway point is there is quite a lot of appeal outside of just economic factors, most travel could be put down as being not economically advantageous, but life is for living right?
