Yes.
From the end of WWII to the late 1970's (when they decided to import Moroccan workers en masse), it was close to being heaven on earth.
You can laugh at that all you want, I only have to ask my grandparents and they know.
That's the difference between them and millennials, they think Belgium (or at least Brussels) has always been a sewer.
Not at all, before the Muslim mass immigration, Belgium was like Poland, or Japan.
The far left has been trying to destabilize society since the late 1960's, when they lost the battle on the scientific front, so they started infiltrating academia, the media, law, etc.
Their ideological engineer indirectly led to the rise of the far right since those times.
Political correctness didn't appear overnight.