That explains a quicker minyan; the davening is in their native language!
We’ve been here 4+ years, B”H, and you know, it’s amazing how much faster I daven than I used to. It’s not something conscious, just something I picked up from being in that environment.
My regular Shabbat minyan is about 90 minutes – start at 7:30, end around 9 or so, depending on the length of the parsha. There’s no drasha, no mee she’bayrachs. (Occasionally the Rav will come in and speak, but only about 4 minutes.) I have no problems keeping up, and I’m quite used to it now.
I went back to the states for a bar-mitzvah about a year and a half ago. The davening went from 9 to 12, and it was painful to sit through all the extra stuff. Mee shebayrachs that lasted 5 minutes apiece. A 30 minute drasha. The family asked me to daven P’sukei D’zimra; I made an effort to daven slowly. The gabbi told me to slow down, I was still davening too fast.