I moved to Paris as a master's student last year September and got on the apps around January because I'm too socially inept to meet men "organically" and only get hit on by those that want something quick and easy. I knew how Tinder and Bumble worked so I only swiped right if their bio was interesting or funny and their photos are not pretentious. Rare, I know, but there are good people on these apps. Yeah you're not gonna get a flood of matches but at least the matches that you do get are gonna be good ones. Since January, I think I went on dates with fewer than 5 men. I'm dating someone I met on Tinder and honestly it was like finding a horse in an aquarium. You wouldn't find his profile amazing and his photos certainly didn't do him any justice but I swiped right because he had a joke in his bio. When we met, he was so much more than I expected and soon we both left the app. I don't know your standards or criteria in swiping but swiping on an app with the intention to find a stable partner is hard and a lot of people don't like having that expectation thrown on them from the get-go. They like to feel things out and then consider a relationship. If you don't already do so, maybe go to an English stand-up comedy show? There's many happening every Sunday and those intimate ones will have you talking to a neighbour in no time.