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@Velocio
Yes.
I have multiple iVPN endpoints set up, and basically flick between them depending on what I want to do.
iPlayer works on the UK connections.
BBC Worldwide works on the US connections.
The Rapha site shows me the Netherlands version.
I tend to use multi-hop if accessing contentious topics (all that NSA news and political stuff), but use single hop most of the time.
There is no noticeable battery drain on mobile from permanently using OpenVPN. I noticed significantly more battery drain when I had my mobile fully encrypted... so now my approach is standard mobile with encrypted (VPN) data communications.
VPN speed depends on processor speed, and mobiles are fine... but this is why routers with cheap chipsets cannot get above 10mbps. The one I linked to above is fine for the speeds I'm able to test with (100mbps).
I guess the only other weirdness I encounter because of VPNs everywhere, is that my home printer is a networked printer, and I need to disable temporarily the router VPN when printing as I swear the thing is trying to spool the print document to some machine in the VPN hosting facility. And that... is literally the only downside to my setup.