The cleaning work is not particularly difficult, just very tedious.

The city isn't particularly prosperous, but if they stick to the nicer areas it's crime-free and seems nice enough. They can find apartments for a longer-term living situation if they look hard enough, too. Those are expensive in this part of town though.

She knows how cleaning work goes. She works. 

Did the laws they looked at earlier indicate how this place feels about self defense? Defense of others?

How are nicer areas identified?

Self defense with reasonable, proportionate force is okay! If you escalate the level of violence you might get squinted at. Defense of others is a bit iffy - the defense of others law seems to be written in a way that they can round up everyone involved in a gang fight without worrying about them claiming defense of others.

Nicer areas have wood construction, clean streets, glass windows, fresh paint, and people go around in ones and twos mostly instead of four or more.

(Gang fights, wonderful.)

(Wood as opposed to?)

Well, she'll stick to the nice areas for now, she does have Jewel with her and there's no reason to go borrowing trouble, but she's not especially worried about the not nice parts. Not looking for apartments for now, to early to know how things will be turning out here.

Are there museums or libraries? Or movie theaters, she heard they have those? Or other things?(!)

As opposed to cheap-looking plastic or slightly-crumbly floatstone walls.

Museums, libraries, movie theaters, botanical gardens, and sports arenas all exist here! The museums and libraries have entry fees.

How high are the fees? What kind of sports?

What kind of museums? And, she wants to go to the botanical gardens!

The fees are maybe three meals' worth. Either the food's kinda cheap or the museums and things are kinda expensive. Sports include glider races, soccer, wrestling, and something involving lots of climbing and leaping around tall rope nets with a ball.

There's a museum about Earth. There's a museum about space. There's one about the history of the city. The botanical garden has three zones - Earthly, Native, and Mixed.

Free activities first at the moment. She'll consult with Xeyr about the city history museum later. (How much are the sports? Are there opportunities for the common people to give said sports a try?)

Mixed first!

A few places look like they'd welcome newcomers or hobbyists! It's not immediately clear how expensive participating in the local sports is, though.

The mixed terrarium is apparently mostly about Earthly and Cloudbank life that mixes well. Invasive species is a really huge problem, particularly of birds.

Can it become clearer with slightly more effort, including asking someone?

Is it ok to jump around the garden as long as she doesn't step on anything?

Invasive birds?! How did they get invasive birds?! What are the birds doing?

Renting equipment and a space is pretty cheap for wrestling and ground-soccer, still decent but pricier for rope-soccer, but glider rental and glider race course fees will start to add up fast. Also, they'll probably want to hire an instructor, at least for a little while.

Some of the birds were escaped experiment subjects. Some were carelessly contained pets, or escaped from zoos after a catastropic airborne collision, being able to fly unlike the bears and tigers and so on. One species was deliberately brought in and engineered to specifically hunt these tiny tentacled insect-analogues so honeybees could survive and pollinate Earthly crops!

Renting equipment and space is overkill; she was thinking of a 'come here and try this' sort of opportunity. She'll keep the various information in mind.

Wheee garden!

They can spend their time on this and other free activities such as walking around the city.

With Xeyr be done with work by the time she needs to go to work?

A couple of places can do a 'walk in and try it out' deal! Rope-soccer and regular-soccer, particularly.

Yes, Xeyr is done with work by then.

No time today but she'll be interested in trying the rope soccer.

Good. Then she can drop off Jewel and go off to her job.

She checks what her work schedule will be like going forward - when do they want her coming in? Are there off days? When is payment?

There are off days, irregularly. Come in at such and such a time. Payment at the end of each week. Shifts are kind of irregular, but check in at this office place and you can probably pick up extras.

Mia's bouncer job pairs her with a guy who sizes her up and asks about her history with this kind of work.

She looks at times and shifts. Do they allow for her being free while Mia is working?

Does he mean specifically if she's been a bouncer before (yes), or something more general?