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How small a town are we talking about? I grew up in a 100,000 person city and we only had two taxi services that would take ages to arrive, depending on where y

• alexey-salmin 3y ago
  Around 100k. It was in Russia though and owning a car wasn't as common as say in US. Public transport wasn't very pleasant to use either. It was an interesting case, a sort of a breakthrough in transportation habits achieved by loads of 15-years old right-hand-drive Toyotas converted into taxis. The cheapest ride was around $1 and people literally started riding taxis to the next building on the same street.
  • margalabargala 3y ago
    A population of 100k is large enough to appear on the wikipedia list of "largest cities in Russia". A small town it is not.
• bee_rider 3y ago
  It must depend on the demographics also, right? Which would apply some skew to our personal impressions, making it hard to say much. I’ve lived in a couple college towns and they tended to have smaller populations, but pretty good taxi services—which makes sense when you have a bunch of young people who want to go out to drink, might not have cars, and probably are willing to spend money on that sort of thing, and tend to all go to and from the same destinations. I bet the hackernews demographic skews toward college educated, so I wonder if people are commenting with truthful experiences, but from that particular (IMO, at least questionably representative) niche.