> This costs $500 in Australia in the inner city.

I'd pay that. I am stuck with 2mb ADSL living in the centre of a major city in Scotland.

I had thought that Scotland (at least on the west coast) had a natural advantage from transatlantic cables landing there (meaning there is some good backbone infrastructure too) but I think I was just wrong and they mostly terminate around the Bristol Channel.

Really? I'm on 74/18 down/up in Dundee. https://www.speedtest.net/result/17623286611

(tbf when I was more central dundee it was closer to 20/10).