Cloudflare slows down my website

I'm running a silly little expressjs server on a laptop in South Africa

The website has about 3ms response time from my computer 5 feet away from laptop normally, but when I proxy through cloudflare then I suddenly get 500ms to 900ms delay. From what I can tell it also routes my website through London instead of a server in South Africa, but even then 500-900 ms delay seems unreasonable

Anyone have any clue what's causing this?
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