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@Oliver Schick
I can't talk as I think I've taken a cab precisely twice in more than twenty years of living in London (once when friends I was out with hailed one to go about 500 metres down the road (groan) and I didn't have my bike with me, and once from the station to home when I had a silly amount of luggage--black cabs both times), but I'd usually prefer the local provider to an exploitative international corporation whose aim is, simply, to erect international monopolies or oligopolies, undercutting older business models in which much more money stays in the local economy. Similar things are happening in other industries, of course. It may not be personally so convenient to use an older and seemingly outdated business, but, in the long run and indirectly, dealing locally always works out to your advantage.