You are absolutely right, look how I remember the words of my mother, who used to say "when I was a child I didn't have as much as you do now", "in my time it was different".
Although we are separated by more than 500 (Arad - Bucharest) km it seems that those times were the same almost everywhere in the country.
But times have passed and change, freedom, access to information and the rest have come upon us......