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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: elmatador who wrote (42263)	12/1/2003 2:20:42 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Cabbies - Here in Silicon Valley, we have one or two cab companies run by Sikhs, and they are pretty good drivers, and know their way around. We have some Russian and other former Soveit Union, and some other Middle eastern people, except Iranians. These guys vary in their compentence. Iranians don't drive cabs here, they are business men. In the rest of the US , i get all kinds. In Boston I got a Russian who had issues with directions - had to go out of town to a universwity conference center. The place was hard to find, but he got lost about 5 times.... New Yorker cabbies are pretty good, at least they aren't actors any more ;-). Some Irish. In Chicago I got a Jamacian who got lost going to Motorola in Shaumberg (a very common destination) and did a U -turn o na four lane road with traffic. I was feeling mellow, but he a dangerous idiot. Taiwan had enough traffic it didn't move fast. Paris has slightly scary drivers. But Boston is WAY scarier than either. Once made it from the airport to our hotel in about 18 minutes at 4:30 pm with a mad Russian driver - he avoided a back up by crossing the double yellow line (only one or two cars comming) and going about 65 on city streets to do a BIG loop the congested parts of downtown to get us to our hotel... Went around some curves at the edge of drifting ... knew the city, but ....I LIKE living.

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