[zamadatix]

> IPv4 is very painful for people not in the US or Western Europe that (a) were now there early enough to get in on the IPv4 address land rush, or (b) don't have enough money to buy as many IPv4 addresses as they need (assuming someone wants to sell them).

The lack of pain is not really about the US & Western Europe have plenty of addresses or something of that nature, it's that alternative answers such as NAT and CG-NAT (i.e. double NAT where the carrier uses non-public ranges for the consumer connections) deployments are still growing faster in those regions than IPv6 adoption when excluding cellular networks (they've been pretty good about adopting IPv6 and are where most of the IPv6 traffic in those regions comes from).