Just get an Uber!

[AlwaysCountYourPennies]

I see this suggested on so many threads. Do people not realise that Uber are not available in vast areas of the country?

Not to me or anyone I know though as it's not much used/available here. People who have good access to it may use it as an alternative name but it's not true everywhere. In my area people would just say taxi.

Maybe among your social circle it is, but where I live literally nobody says "get an Uber" - it's just not a thing at all.

I have never used an uber in my life, but if someone said to me call an uber I would just call whatever taxi.

Well quite, I'd understand what they mean but I'd never say that myself as I don't use Uber of even know anyone who does.

That is the point of this thread, people do not all have access to Uber, the tube, buses, taxis, takeaway deliveries etc etc hence they don't say I'll call an Uber, they would say I'll call a taxi as they closest alternative although taxis aren't available everywhere. Yet the London/urban-centric dwellers refuse to accept that not everywhere is the same as their neighbourhood and are repeatedly trying to tell posters they are wrong and amenities must be available.

Makes me smile too. I did spot one once in our nearest city (10 miles away) but they’re definitely not a thing here (rural East Mids). Even taxis are not really an option. They won’t come out here because it’s not worth their while.

Similarly, Deliveroo.

And they aren't free!

Not everyone can "just" afford a taxi.

Over the last 50 years I’ve lived in cities, market towns and rural areas in the South, the North and the Midlands. The rural areas didn’t have much going on, but everywhere with 20k+ people had buses, cab services and takeaways that delivered (though delivery was very scarce outside cities until 20ish years ago). Not nearly as many as London, but they did exist and were useful.

Aye and that can go fuck itself as well

Does everywhere have 20k+ people? No, none of the villages around here have even close to that. My town doesn't even have a single takeaway. Not sure where in the North you've been but clearly nowhere near me. Why do you refuse to believe posters talking about their home areas?

Only in areas where it actually exists, surely?

I'd never say "I'll get an Uber" because they just aren't a thing here. We don't have Deliveroo or JustEat either!

Where we live we have 2 taxi companies who close at 6 pm. We also have no buses after 9 pm and a train station that's up a steep hill on the way home. We also don't have ubers.

You don’t have to have access to Uber to understand that someone just means to get a cab when they say it. And it doesn’t have to be a phrase you’d use yourself to be able to understand that that’s the way others use it.

Just as you can still understand that if someone says you should just Hoover something up they mean to vac it up with your Henry/Dyson/B&Q own brand vacuum cleaner. And you can still understand that even if you wouldn’t say it because you’ve never owned or used a Hoover vacuum cleaner yourself.

I see it as shorthand for taxi. It's like when people use Deliveroo/Just Eat/Uber Eats to mean takeaway
It's just synonymous with taxi now

It isn’t. Only said by city dwellers. Round here it is taxi and takeaway.

Yet the London/urban-centric dwellers refuse to accept that not everywhere is the same as their neighbourhood and are repeatedly trying to tell posters they are wrong and amenities must be available.

I agree. Maybe we should be telling them to buy their vegetables from a local farm shop, and their meat from a butcher who uses locally sourced meat (as in within 3 miles)

WTF? Where have I said I don’t believe posters talking about their home areas? I have, in response to someone suggesting otherwise, pointed out that I have a wide experience of living in different places in the UK, some with access to these services, some without. I’ve said the majority of the UK live in places with these services and that talking about them isn’t London centric.

Yet I live in your 85% government defined urban place that is in fact semi-rural without some of those facilities. I am telling you that it is not just 15% of the population who don't have these things. You clearly don't believe posters as you are persisantly posting stats to disprove anyone saying the opposite to you.

@EmmaEmerald sorry for being so rude and not coming back until this morning 🤣

Sadly no. No haunting here. No murderous history. I just live in the absolute back of beyond

I don’t use Uber. But I live in Australia where truly vast swathes of the country (the hospital I work at has a coverage area larger than the whole of England) don’t have good public transport or taxi services and yet it remains true that the vast majority of Australians don’t live in those areas.

I didn’t find it annoying to see those assumptions when living and working in remote parts of the NT - I could grasp that although I couldn’t get a takeaway on a Friday night, the majority of people in Australia could.

😂 my entire county barely has 20k and if I “need” a taxi, I probably need Charlie Oscar!

No takeaways, no child-minders, no supermarkets, no supermarket deliveries.

I often get the impression there are many haven’t travelled outside the M25.

“Cab” to me is a Black Cab whereas Uber is different. And I can only express an opinion on the area where I live. I leave vasts areas of the country to those who live there.

To all PPs complaining about the lack of a taxi service where they live, you are all looking at a potential business opportunity.

We only have Babs' Cabs here. Rural Derbyshire.

Exactly, unfortunately however, there's a large number of people in the UK, who have such an issue with anything that sounds ‘London centric’ (as if Uber only operates in London) they become agitated.

Having issues with ‘that London’ is why many people voted for Brexit also.

I live in an area well-served by Uber and you do still meet people who seem oblivious to its merits. I rarely used to get taxis in London as it was expensive, was annoying having to call the office and then having to get cash and tips etc. Uber makes all of this a breeze. So I do think that Uber is a better service than a normal taxi so you might refer to it as that as a selling point.
I’m aware that lots of places don’t have this option. A good reminder of why I guess house prices are so high around here (but you get a lot of people who wouldn’t come and live here if you paid them). You make a choice: higher house prices, lots of services. Lower house prices, needing to drive around everywhere.

Set up a taxi firm? It seems there's a gap in the market op!