The power of Browser extensions.

 Expats in Warsaw certainly use social media. Are you doing it in a useful way? Nowdays advertisement and suggested posts pollute your feed so massively that you can barely receive the news feed of the pages and groups you are following. A poweful solution is the use of browser extensions:

Social Fixer for Firefox is quite interesting. You have to search for other browsers equivalent extensions. Some extensions are not available in the official repositories but can be found with a search. FB Purity is one of such cases. 

 While very powerful FB purity as probably too many functions and that might make it less user friendly.

Instead Social Fixer is easier to use and has a function that might be not present in FB Purity: the option to order the posts of your feed by the newest one and not by top stories (that means the social media choose what is important to read for you, how nice of them).

 

 Smarphones can install Kiwi Browser to be able to install chrome extensions. What actually works well has to be tested but useful extensions can be found. 

Specific social media extensions might exists so you have to search for what suits you best.

Don't forget to join us on our Telegram channel for the Expats of Warsaw

 https://t.me/tandemwarsawinternational

Fed up of receiving our posts 10 days later on Facebook? Would you like to receive them all instead of their limited selections? Join us on our Telegram channel. No censorship and shadowbanning there and above all no ads, suggested posts and countless and useless posts from thousands of groups and pages. 

jobs for the Expats in Warsaw

 The job ads files have been update it. You can have a look at https://tandeminternational.waw.pl/jobs. All Jobs in Warsaw with English, German, Spanish and French. All jobs in Poland with Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Ukrainian and Russian. All physical jobs in Warsaw. Plenty of opportunities for every Expats and Foreigner in Warsaw.

The next language exchange meeting for the Expats of Warsaw is on Friday the 16th of February 2024. It's for subscribers only. Subscribers at the official website tandeminternational.waw.pl will receive the invitation with the name and address of the location via email, the only direct and safe channel to receive genuine information about Tandem Warsaw International Community meetings. Let's remind that everyone can subscribe and participate free of charge. Tandem is always no profit for the hosts and for the participants. All participants are kindly requested to check their emails in their inbox and spam box and confirm or cancel their participation. Also let's not forget the two people are more than enough to have a meeting but in order for everyone not to miss potential language partners it is fundamental that everyone arrives on time at the beginning of the meeting so that no one waits for the other for too long and leaves. 

Last but not least: Join our Telegram channel at https://t.me/tandemwarsawinternational. It's much better than joining thousands of similar groups on facebook along with a million fake profiles. You will receive all information publish without censorship or delay and will be always updated about Tandem's meetings. Also it is a source of genuine information like the official website and your mailbox.

All jobs in Warsaw for Expats and foreigners

https://tandeminternational.waw.pl/jobs/pracaindex.html 

 

The CTRL+F will help you surf 11.000 job ads in less than a couple of hours.

If you are an Expat or a Foreigner in Warsaw looking for a job the job files are going to help you with your search.

Cost of living in Warsaw

Warsaw has had 15 years ago, without  but very few noticing that, the crown of the cheapest and most vibrant European capital for nightlife. That has been steadily changing every year until 2019. Covid pandemic management has had a discrete effect mainly in reducing the efficiency and quality of city services and a relative impact on prices. However what has dramatically changed the cost of living has been the conflict still ongoing at the borders between Russia and Ukraine. Now the ratio between wages and cost of living is not that convenient for Expats that cannot aspire to get well paid job positions. The most important factor is the cost of the rent not only due to an increase of demand (some Ukrainians have established themselves in Warsaw but the overall population in Warsaw has been stable around 1.800.000 people) but to aggressive speculative real-estate business and speculative greed of household owners. Currently Expats should consider Warsaw not necessarily as a first choice but consider other available options also.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Warsaw

You have nine days to get ready for the next Expats meeting in Warsaw

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tandem-warsaw-international-community-language-exchange-meeting-tickets-812961478667?aff=ebdssbdestsearch 

 

Subscribe directly at tandeminternational.waw.pl. Eventbrite will redirect you there anyway.

 You have time until 22.00 of today to subscribe for the tomorrow Monday meeting, otherwise see you on Wednesday, the 7th of February.  The invitations will be resent tomorrow morning.

How to follow the news in Poland

 Polish language requires time and application to be mastered.

Meanwhile a precious tool that will help you to surf the sources in Polish is the TWRP browser extension, available for Firefox and other browsers: TWP for Firefox. You can search of course the same or similar extension for other browsers.

Once you have installed the extension you will be able to translate entire webpages with one click and that will give you access to all the news and administration websites you need.

Forget the mainstream media in Poland, they are all heavily biased and mostly organs of propaganda for the usual subjects you should have learned to classify by yourselves long ago.

Worth noticing because a bit off the beaten path are:

https://medianarodowe.com/ conservative point of view and alternative

https://www.pap.pl/en Polish press agency, mainstream but at least not sencond hand

https://banbye.com/tags/wRealu24 The alternative media Polish reaction to Big Tech censorship

If you really want to go rogue, mainstream "public enemy" number one podium is currently assigned to the politician https://www.grzegorzbraun.pl/

Independent journalist https://sumlinski.pl/ is also rogue enough food for thought.

The Polish Statistical Office is also a precious source that will help you to develop a deeper understanding of Poland