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Uber commuting: It’s like the subway, but much slower and less efficient! Via Gilt City. I have heard tale of mysterious creatures of New York, the privileged souls who refuse \u2014 actually refuse! \u2014 to take the subway under any circumstances. I knew of one lady, the sister of someone I dated, who called a car every morning from her Manhattan apartment and waited for it to take her to the other side of Manhattan.\u00a0These folks shun the subway, a goddamn miracle of civil engineering that’s basically a warp tunnel installed below ground that can shoot you from one end of the city to another in an hour or two for under three bucks. Instead, they rely on the lowly car, that crass and inefficient means of transport we associate with the suburbs, where people exile themselves on population islands far away from all the stores, food, hair salons and Pokemon… Read More<\/p>\n

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