Los Altos Hills is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, filled with tech millionaires and billionaires.. whatever the price may be, it’s heavily subsidized by extremely rich people who became wealthy due to tech companies wanting it in the first place. On Zillow, the cheapest house there is $4M and will likely be purchased to be torn down, the most expensive property is $40M and looks like a boutique hotel. Not really fair to compare them to the normal town.

When I moved in to my house the only available option was AT&T DSL at 18/1 mbps. Comcast quoted $210k to run cable despite everyone else on my street already having a connection. It took me a year, but I organized with a bunch of my neighbors on the two streets behind my house and we trenched to get ourselves connected.

Being in a wealthy area is no guarantee of service. I currently pay $155/mo. It's symmetric 10 gbps. My router isn't grunty enough to deliver that.