As I saw somebody once say, "The US is a 3rd world country in a Prada belt." If we didn't have that big chunk of post-WW2 money keeping our economy chugging along all these years, we probably wouldn't look all that different from them.
I have the same issue, but I am also in the EU. however, I just used an extension to spoof my user agent and now it works fine. there is some weird behavior sometimes, like when I call someone it doesn't actually ring the other person etc.