The dream of my happy childhood in Australia

 This morning I had a dream. I was a kid again (I'm assuming 9 years old, back in 1992). And I was back in Australia and spending time with my Australian grandmother again (the one who bought me all the Dino Rider, He Man and GI Joe stuff I often show on my YouTube videos).

Back then, Australia was a great place to live. Most people who worked could afford a house/multiple houses, I never saw homeless people and food was very cheap even considering lower wages.

In the dream, my grandmother took me to one of the local shopping centers she often took me to, and took me to a cafe we used to like to eat at.

Back then, food was so cheap, elderly people living off a pension and families could afford to regularly dine at these types of cafeterias/coffeeshops.

In the dream, the prices were as I remembered, 1.50 AUD for a chicken salad roll, 1.20 AUD for hot chips + 10 cents for gravy. These cafeterias often sold meat pies , sausage rolls, proper sausages that you could have with hot chips on gravy, or on a bread roll with sauce and onion (not to be confused with a sausage roll). And of course, they sold coffee for adults to relax to, and hot chocolate.

I told my grandmother I've been 34 years in the future, and house prices are unaffordable to most people, and told her the family house had increased 10x in value while salaries had increased maybe 5x, and buying a chicken salad roll 30 years from now would cost over 10 AUD, and hot chips over 5 AUD. I told her in the future, there's many homeless people in Australia, and I left Australia for a better life in Thailand.

My Grandmother told me these problems were caused because younger people don't listen to the generation before them (basically they keep making the same mistakes) She said young people today lack the manners and respect of people from her time (which I agree with and has contributed to the social deterioration in the Western world).

Anyways, a part of me wanted to stay in 1992 Australia, but I had a house, wife and son waiting for me in 2026 Thailand. 

I woke up, and wondered was this just my subconscious playing a part in my dream, or could this have been some sort of interdimsnsional travel in which my soul left my body while I was asleep and went back in time, and perhaps my grandmother wanted to say hello?

I've said before, many Australians living in Thailand say Thailand reminds them of what Australia used to be like, and I'll say the local shopping area that I go to nearly everyday reminds me of the shopping centers my grandmother often took me to when I was a kid. The cheap delicious food, a simpler and happy life, more communal and seeing people look happy and smiling. I'm not the only person who remembers people in Australia were happier back then before things went downhill in Australia from the early 2000s onwards.