Originally Posted by Tchiowa

Second, be careful of site like FT and TA and others. You can get a lot of good information, but you need to learn how to separate the wheat from the chaff. If you see someone posting about how evil a particular place is, how the locals are all thieves and liars and everyone rips you off, move to the next post. These are usually people who created their own problems but wanted someone to blame it on. Similarly, ignore those that create too bright of a picture. Do like they do in Olympics gymnastic scoring. Throw out the highest scores and the lowest scores then based your decision on what's left.