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billbob · Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Posts: 55

http://www.tefl.com/job-seeker/jobpage.html?jobId=92241&countryId=171

Ha ha ha! Is Łódź a hip place? It's got a film school and some bands have come from there, but I've heard it's generally a poo-hole. T or F?

Do they really consider hipsters a unique selling point? Too many twerps in lumberjack shirts, quiffs, victorian facial hair etc struggling up hills on fixed-gear bikes and I avoid the place like the plague!

mitsui · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 1562 Location: Kawasaki

Drink at the Baghdad Cafe and you may change your mind.
Lots of good students there.
They do well on the Cambridge Proficiency Exam - behind the Greeks.
Maybe they want to be hipsters.

Compared to Kielce or Radom it must be cool.

billbob · Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Posts: 55

I once saw a Polish meme: "Whenever you're feeling lonely, think of the tourist information centre in Radom."

mitsui · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 1562 Location: Kawasaki

Hipster is not the right word.
That would apply to Berlin.
But Lodz is not bad. Sure, Krakow is better, but not the pay.

dragonpiwo · Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin

I guess they got tired of 'Venice of the north', 'good local salary' and 'free coffee and internet'.

'Hipster town' shows you exactly who they want to recruit and is an indication of how seriously the take their native speaker 'experts'.

Master Shake · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1202 Location: Colorado, USA

billbob · Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Posts: 55

Maybe they're despearate wannabes whose dream is to make it ON to the street?

mitsui · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 1562 Location: Kawasaki

Lodz has always had an inferiority complex.
Anyway, students are pretty good there.
Cheaper rent than Warsaw.
Your flat could be bigger.
You can get good, fresh bread at a bakery.

A lot of Jewish history there.

simon_porter00 · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 505 Location: Warsaw, Poland

That's the worst limerick ever mitsui, it doesn't even rhyme.

sparks · Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 632

There once was a teacher in Lodz,
Who got drunk and lost his shoes,
He couldn't get home
He lost his phone
And realized it was all from the booze.

Master Shake · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1202 Location: Colorado, USA

sparks · Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 632

Poland limericks. Have at it Shake Smile

dragonpiwo · Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin

There once was a girl from Buk....

Answers on a postcard...

simon_porter00 · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 505 Location: Warsaw, Poland

There once was a girl from Buk
Who drove around in a Zuk
With amazing pipes
And a perfect stripe
Everyone wanted a look...... at the registration documents

twowheel · Joined: 03 Jul 2015 Posts: 753

hip, hip...hooray!

twowheel