Disoriented in a new city?
Road, blanket and many kilometers in between. When it comes to packing your bags to settle in a different city or even in a distant country, there are a handful of things that you cannot forget. Among them, there are a few applications that, from your pocket, they can make it much easier for you to adapt to your new place of residence.
Beyond Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp or all those apps that allow you to keep in touch with your family and friends, with other mobile tools you can do everything, from locate the ingredients to make a typical dish from your land until you receive packages from your parents without leaving your salary in a courier company.
1. DEALPLATZ: COOKING LIKE AT HOME
To feel at home, nothing like a good typical dish. However, far from your country, finding some ingredients can be a complex task. dealplatz , an app available for iOS and Android devices, will tell you exactly where you can buy what you need. Tell him where you live and where you're from and he'll take you to the door of the supermarket what are you looking for.
The Dealplatz app
two. TUNELN RADIO: YOUR WAVES, WHEREVER YOU ARE
The Internet brings you the sounds of your land wherever you are, and this application (available for iOS and Android) puts them in your pocket. With TuneIn Radio you can listen to the radio in your city even if you are thousands of kilometers away So you feel at home.
3. CITYMAPPER: SO YOU DON'T GET LOST BETWEEN TRAINS
One of the great challenges of anyone who moves is to adapt to public transport in their new city. With Citymapper, all the means of transport in the big cities will appear on the screen of your mobile . Schedules, connections and best routes are in this app that now also shows which is the best car to travel by metro or train depending on your destination.
Four. NO LANGUAGE PROBLEMS WITH ITRANSLATE
Let the language not be a barrier. With iTranslate, star trek universal translator comes true : you choose your language and that of your interlocutor, you speak and the mobile does the rest. It will translate word by word what you say so that there are no problems with the language.
5. WORLD VIEW TO SEE YOUR STREETS AGAIN
The world is full of cameras, and something good had to have so much surveillance: if nostalgia can get you, nothing like entering WorldView to take a walk through the cameras that broadcast live from half the world . Seeing your streets again, live, is priceless.
The WorldView app
6. LIANA, THE SOCIAL NETWORK TO SEARCH COMPATRIOTS
With Liana you can search for other people of your nationality in your new country. Select the location and the app's own map will show you the place where other of your compatriots are present in this peculiar social network.
7. REMOTE MONEY WITH WORLDREMIT
Living abroad, sending money can become a problem with many solutions. In addition to the countless companies that are dedicated to this process, the WorldRemit app allows you to transfer money between more than a hundred different countries with low rates and in just a couple of taps on a smartphone screen.
8. HAVE THE PACKAGES DELIVERED TO YOU WITH FRIENDSHIPPR
Crowdshipping has also reached the mobile screen. Now, it will be cheaper and easier for your family to send you a package from home with Friendshippr , an application that connects travelers and those who want to transport a package . For a modest price (much cheaper than a courier company), someone will take your packages taking advantage of your trip.
9. OFFLINE MAPS
The first days in your new destination can be the most complicated. Without a cell phone from the country in which you are settling, surfing the internet from a smartphone may be quite an odyssey. In the meantime, you have to find a way to function and, for this, there is nothing better than CityMaps2Go (for iOS and Android), maps available offline with which you will not have any problem in the first moments in your new city.
10. ADAPT TO THE GASTRONOMIC CULTURE AS IF YOU WERE AT HOME
Beyond nostalgia and the thousand and one ways to feel at home, there is also an application to do the same while you get your palate used to the new flavors in your environment. This is EatWith , a platform with which you can enter the houses of natives to try the local cuisine in an ordinary house like yours.
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