The EU is better on average, but isn't universally great either. I pay 60 EUR for 200Mbit down/20Mbit up ADSL in Amsterdam, after my 6-month discount ran out. No fiber in my neighborhood yet. There's one gigabit provider in my neighborhood (Ziggo) and they have a bad reputation. For the same price I was getting FiOS gigabit in NYC.
I have 1.1Gb/100Mb on Ziggo in Amsterdam. I've had no real issues with them, at least for me the reputation is undeserved. I pay a bit more than that, but like €20 or so. They also give me a /57 or something which is nice (if a weird allocation, but I'm not going to use that many subnets anyway.)
I have had a fibre cable poking out of the footpath in front of my apartment for a year or two now, waiting for ODF or whoever to come and install it into the building.
