• @warbond@lemmy.world
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      60•13 hours ago

      In the US, yes. It’s stupid expensive because we gave the telecoms a lot of money to upgrade the infrastructure and they didn’t, so we gave them a bunch more but they still didn’t. So now we pay off our debt to telecoms by paying too much for internet. Freedom.

    • bountygiver [any]
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      It also have $100/month of attending weddings. Those are rare enough they get rolled into vacation expenses normally.

      Also parking is in hangouts instead of cars lol.

    • @SpikedIguana@sh.itjust.works
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      1•7 hours ago

      Wasn’t even optional at my last place, just added on as a fee so they could say rent was lower, base rent was like $800, ended up costing more like $1100 after non optional fees.

    • Kairos
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      0•6 hours ago

      European internet is heavily subsidized by the state

        • Daniel Quinn
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          Canada’s problem is not a lack of subsidy. It’s the state’s tolerance for oligopoly.

          Source: I grew up in Canada and moved to Europe in my 30s.

        • Pyr
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          1•5 hours ago

          Are you rural? We get it for $80 a month. 2gb/s from Rogers. Technically rural as well but just on the outskirts of a city.

    • @jtrek@startrek.website
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      3•11 hours ago

      It’s $100/month in my building in NYC. Cable internet, maybe 300mb/s down. But I get packet loss upwards of 20% sometimes.

      • left_is_best
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        6•10 hours ago

        I found a 1br in Springfield, MA for $1750 after 10 seconds of searching.