When I read about how you had no internet for days, I was amused. For what I thought was - Australia has everything and these problems would be solved in seconds or at far some minutes and the same with how you often complain about your slow internet speed.
We used to have load-shedding for about 18 hrs a day some years ago but now so much has changed. Power cut offs are very rare and we don't need to complain about internet speed a lot. So maybe we aren't living that different lives. It even got me thinking that we, living on the cities here, might sometimes even have a better life infrastructure wise.(Not talking about the rural lives here though!)
Coming from England, it was a bit of a surprise to be experiencing so many power outages. Back in the 80s and early 90s the UK still had them, but most power lines were moved underground out of the weather by the mid to late 90s and power cuts became rare and were quickly sorted When they did occur. When we first came to Australia we experienced forced outages during heatwaves in order to decrease the load and stop sub-stations going down.
Admittedly, South Australia is a bit behind much of the rest of Australia. We're a bit of a country state.
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