I use a VPN on my home PC (and occasionally on other devices) more as as security than a location measure. I use paid-for NordVPN who have hundreds of servers, and unless you explicitly request a particular country or purpose server you are allocated to one automatically in your country for load balancing.
Problems can arise as a result of email spammers having used them sane servers in the past. The NordVPN network sub address ranges must be known by some organisations as they block them, therefore I can't reach their sites.
An example is not being able to click through from the Shopping result on a Google search to an item as the Google ad servers (doubleclick IIRC). I can turn off VPN to get through this and turn it on again once I reach the site but it sort of defeats the object, especially as in that instance they are probably planting something on my PC.
And currently I am banned from a renewable energy forum as my address appears to them as a spammer. (It'd just be a blanket ban for, for instance, 123.456.123.* so anything form particular address ranges).
People have told me my mail sometimes goes into their Junk box which I assume is when I've sent it while VPN is active so the originating IP appears in the header.
So a VPN may solve the issue but bring a whole load more!
(I do have OpenVPN server running on a Raspberry Pi for a private VPN but it ends up throttling the connection somewhat. If I were bothered about it then something like that may be the way forward for me)
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