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Yes, and north Hollywood isn’t exactly a rural backwater

absolutely, its shameful.

you're right -- but it's not a good way to compare an entire country.

example : I live in a rural backwater part of the United States and I have access to gigabit+ ISPs.

"Also US internet in general will be more reliable, won't go out when it rains hard."

Why do you believe that US internet is any more reliable than any other, especially since many countries have fiber to home?

This was a specific reference to the comment above about the cost in India. Yes in general would say more reliable than India.

Off the top of my head, my connection has only had ~8 hours of downtime over the last six months. That is around 99% uptime.