[Bratislava-pm] [Off Topic] Bratislava Hints

[Emmanuel Rodriguez]

Hi Jonathan,

I'm also an immigrant in Slovakia, Bratislava! I have to admit that my 
integration into the society wasn't so difficult since my wife is from 
Bratislava.

I know that a good reference and starting point for new comers is the 
Slovak Spectator (http://www.spectator.sk/). It's a news paper in 
English for foreigners.

The town of Bratislava is quite small when compared with huge towns such 
London, Paris or even Montréal (where I come from). Thus, in my opinion 
distances are quite small here. As far as I know there are no real 
dangerous sections in the city. You should be able to find an 
accommodation everywhere in the city, the trick is to find something 
close to the center as a lot of shops are near and two big shopping 
centers are close by.

Public transport is good and accessible fine, although you might have to 
give up on the Spanish way of life and go to bed earlier as trams stop 
their routes after 23h00. But this shouldn't too much of a problem as 
generally our pubs close around that hour too, at least the pub we visit.

But everything is not so perfect here, for instance we still haven't 
found a place for our Perl Mongers meeting. Although, since Vienna is so 
close (less than an hour by train) we often go to squat to their monthly 
meetings ;-)

Are you're looking for a job here?

Emmanuel Rodriguez

Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off, sorry for the off-topic post, but with a little luck I might 
> soon be able to count myself as a Bratislava.pm'er. :-)
>
> I'm a /Perl 6?/ hacker originally from the UK, currently living in 
> Spain, and pondering coming to live in Bratislava for a while. I'm doing 
> lots of googling around and seeing what I can find, but any hints on 
> where good/bad areas of the city to live are (I need to be near some 
> form of public transport and within walking distance to shops etc, since 
> I have too bad eyesight to drive a car) or rental agencies you might 
> know of that are good or to be avoided would be wonderful.
>
> Again, sorry for the non-Perl message (and not being able to write in 
> Slovakian, but I promise that I will work on learning it if/when I'm 
> living there - I like languages).
>
> Many thanks for any replies!
>
> Jonathan
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