Comment by williamdclt

My experience in my first-world country is that all I needed was to spend 10min on the phone to be told there’s no taxi available, or to be told it’ll take 30min and actually it take 1h30. Drivers aren’t any more amicable than uber drivers either (less, if anything).

Not to speak of many countries where taxis are outright scammers and getting into one is taking a real danger.