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You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

— Helmut Jahn

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

— Barry Ritholtz

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

— Jimmy Fallon

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

— Milos Forman

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.

— Nina Garcia

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

— Luther Allison

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

— Pam Grier

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

— Barry Ritholtz

✗Opposing Perspectives

I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.

— ASAP Rocky