Do you have Uber/Lyft available where you live?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not "in your area", is your actual residence in a coverage area of them.

Yes, both for me. Though I'm a bit surprised to see how relatively small area they cover. Lyft doesn't even cover the east side of St. Paul.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No, and even if they were, I wouldn't use them because I'm not interested in destroying cab drivers' unions.

That's silly. Uber is cheaper, cleaner, faster, and all-around more pleasant than a cab. The free market competition should lead to cabs adopting the factors that make Uber superior, and then we're all better off.

That actually happened in the Twin Cities. The cab companies started an app called iHail that works the same way.