> Why some people are so ready to glamorize poverty and restrictions, I don't even understand.

> Not every school had computers, and those which do, often had the fear of something being broken as the main guiding principle

People glamorize exotic places they don't know, and you're doing exactly this here: I grew up in the 90s in the suburb of Paris (not in a poor neighborhood) and we didn't have a single computer in school until. And even later in high school in the early 2000, we had few computers in dedicated rooms the teacher had to book in advance and often not all computer worked.

The West was much better that the eastern block in many aspects, but it wasn't the land of unlimited abundance some people from the East believed it was.

I didn't mention Paris, or even West in general though. Made zero comparisons. The whole text is about the place where I lived. So I'm not sure how did I manage to glamorize something