Originally Posted by synthia

I'm sorry, but I don't have anyone to recommend. You really need to go there and look around, maybe stay for a while and see how you like it. It's much better to be there for these things. Some things you only pick up over time. Like, you eventually learn that the police spend most of their time in coffee shops and there are no patrols even on the busiest tourist street, where purse snatchings are common.