Hi, RaRa!
The game was recently released in Trinidad so I'm only on level 13. I chose Team Instinct and the main place to catch Pokemon is the local university. I hardly get to play the game cuz I'm stuck now, doing my post-graduate Diploma in Education. The ministry of education here made it mandatory for all teachers if we want to keep our jobs so eventually, we all have to do it.
I don't have any high CP Pokemon as yet and I've never been able to defeat a gym yet. mrgreen I feel like such a runt!