[rjsw]

It would help if you gave a hint on which technological backwater you are describing.

It wasn't any harder to buy stuff in Western Europe in the early 80s than it was in the US.

[pjmlp]

Portugal late 70's, early 80's in a small town village.

Average salary would be around 300 euros when converted for today's currency

We had just gotten out of a dictatorship.