For the economic impact, as instability has increased, thousand of muslim families have left the afflicted provinces, creating a potential for social problems and ethnic tensions in other regions with predominantly Buddhist populations.The influx of large number of internal refugees. annerrally in provinces closer to bangkok , has inflated house prices and led to more competition for low-cost employment.moreover, most of those who fled the south the educated middle classes, depriving the southerm provinces of a vital constituency required to overcome the social resentments that feed separatist recruitment.