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Quite a few amenities and good cafes, pre-Covid the Bees Knees one used to have good open mic nights. I don't know much about the central European languages my hunch is that maybe it's Polish people rather than Czech I hear there, maybe there's a post on their Facebook page that would give a hint. Lovely cafe anyway (Bowman Street). Milk Cafe does a lot of special nights with different countries guest cuisine, see their Facebook page. Queens Park Railway Club is an art space in a former railway waiting room, eventually that'll be more active again I guess. Given your interests I think you might find some like minded people through Glasgow Zine Library, again they are doing some things over Zoom until things settle down. Ranjits Kitchen and Kurdish Street Food are tasty without being expensive. I don't move in circles where people employ others on a cash in hand basis but I believe the penalties for employing people without the right working visa are pretty steep so it might be tricky to find and the only real incentive for an employer to do it would be to get away with illegally crappy pay and working conditions. From the way you describe yourself I think you'd fit in fine in Govanhill and make a lot of friends. I know a couple of people who bought flats here in the last couple of years and feel they are part of a community and are happy with how it worked out. It's still cheap enough that if you got stable legal employment owning a flat is a realistic goal. Quite a few social enterprises in the area or not far away.