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If I didn't live in the US, I would have trouble imagining life without some sort of VPN based in the US. The amount of crap I experienced the last time I was o

If I didn't live in the US, I would have trouble imagining life without some sort of VPN based in the US. The amount of crap I experienced the last time I was overseas was astounding, and it seems to be getting worse, not better.

lovemenot 11y ago
Perhaps its just your lack of imagination. If you didn't live in the US, then you'd be living in another country. Like most of the locals, you'd probably adjust to getting many services the way they are provided locally. In time, you may even come to find some of the things you take for granted about the US now to be just weird. This is not to disparage the US, but to offer perspective. "the worst thing about living overseas is that its full of foreigners"
- personjerry 11y ago
  Well I'm Canadian and am in the US for school, and it honestly is just a lot more convenient to live in the US. More sites offer delivery, more content is available. Of course, Canada might be a special case; YMMV depending on what country you live in.
  - vertex-four 11y ago
    > More sites offer delivery, more content is available. Which is wonderful if you define your quality of life by how often you can get things delivered to your house and how much heavily-funded Hollywood-produced video you can watch. In much of the rest of the world, we do things outside our houses - I'm not sure if Canada is like the US for cities, but I can personally be in my city centre in 20 minutes by bus, and hang out with friends or see a film with my unlimited cinema card or check out the new cafes or find a new tasty Belgian beer. I can get my bicycle out and cycle with the cycling club - or run around one of the parks. These things matter much more to my quality of life than what I can access instantly at home - I don't like being at home very much long-term.
- lstamour 11y ago
  If you prefer English-language content it can cost a lot more to get it through local distributors -- sometimes services are only made available in the US and a select few countries internationally. Everyone else would have to lie and proxy to get such a service, with no local alternatives. Ironic, since we're talking about how you can't visit this article from the UK, and for reasons that have nothing to do with US licensing. Of course, I've had the same happen to me with UK-exclusive, unlicensed content, so.... Works both ways. Ultimately even though the US catalog of Netflix is huge, it's overshadowed by the global catalog's selection in aggregate...

lovemenot 11y ago

Perhaps its just your lack of imagination. If you didn't live in the US, then you'd be living in another country. Like most of the locals, you'd probably adjust to getting many services the way they are provided locally. In time, you may even come to find some of the things you take for granted about the US now to be just weird. This is not to disparage the US, but to offer perspective. "the worst thing about living overseas is that its full of foreigners"

personjerry 11y ago
Well I'm Canadian and am in the US for school, and it honestly is just a lot more convenient to live in the US. More sites offer delivery, more content is available. Of course, Canada might be a special case; YMMV depending on what country you live in.
- vertex-four 11y ago
  > More sites offer delivery, more content is available. Which is wonderful if you define your quality of life by how often you can get things delivered to your house and how much heavily-funded Hollywood-produced video you can watch. In much of the rest of the world, we do things outside our houses - I'm not sure if Canada is like the US for cities, but I can personally be in my city centre in 20 minutes by bus, and hang out with friends or see a film with my unlimited cinema card or check out the new cafes or find a new tasty Belgian beer. I can get my bicycle out and cycle with the cycling club - or run around one of the parks. These things matter much more to my quality of life than what I can access instantly at home - I don't like being at home very much long-term.
lstamour 11y ago
If you prefer English-language content it can cost a lot more to get it through local distributors -- sometimes services are only made available in the US and a select few countries internationally. Everyone else would have to lie and proxy to get such a service, with no local alternatives. Ironic, since we're talking about how you can't visit this article from the UK, and for reasons that have nothing to do with US licensing. Of course, I've had the same happen to me with UK-exclusive, unlicensed content, so.... Works both ways. Ultimately even though the US catalog of Netflix is huge, it's overshadowed by the global catalog's selection in aggregate...