Deepest, darkest rural France has better Internet than I've ever been able to buy, for any price, in SF 🤦
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@slightlyoff yeah... at my mum in rural Aude, fiber optics.
In my flat in West London, fiber optics doesn't seem to be anywhere close to happening.
Which really makes no sense :|
@Girgias 👋 from l'Auvergne
@slightlyoff France is famously very good at this, beaten in average speed only by places with significant population density advantages (Singapore, UAE, and Hong Kong), but I don't know what they did right compared to comparable neighbours like the UK or (even worse) Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds
@slightlyoff year after year I heard those stories about condos in Paris, but man also in rural areas.
@Migueldeicaza It's funny to me that Americans still have a cultural memory of social democratic systems being nominally more corrupt and dysfunctional while Comcast and UnitedHealth continue to exist.
@slightlyoff Dental care probably more affordable as well.