I'm MOBIE!
After two months of taxis I am finally independent! Last Thursday I got my driver's license (a process I'll detail in another post), without which you cannot rent a car in Abu Dhabi. Ideally, I'd like to live somewhere that is very pedestrian and bike friendly, so the idea of sticking to taxis was sort of appealing to me. You have to walk to all the taxis, right? There are other benefits of taxiing around: someone else is driving and has to pay attention (there are a LOT of car accidents here and people drive like maniacs), you can get current on all your Words with Friends games on the way home from work, it is about the same price for a taxi and a really small rental car, taxis are easy to get overall and will go anywhere. The drawbacks, however, outweigh the benefits. Most are obvious: there is a lot of waiting for taxis. For example, the street my school is on is not a super busy one for taxis, so we order them and sometimes have to wait more than a few min...