Trust, but verify.

If you have the technical knowhow, you could perform traceroutes/pings to tell where a gateway is actually located.

Its impossible to go from Chicago to NZ in 1.5ms since thats faster than the speed of light.

In this case, thats okay, because theyre being honest about where their servers are located.

This is another step inmaking sure your VPN is trustworthybefore you give them your money every month.