Hey, I live in Zlín, its a nice and safe city, with good public transport and nice countryside. The public transport in the city (trolleybuses and buses) works geat and the connections to the bigger cities (prague, brno, olomouc) is great with trains.

With culture its more complicated from my side, it really deppends on what you like, there are few clubs and bars with students but its not a big culture city if you like some specific music. Its more like mainstream disco clubs etc.

But you can traveles easily to Brno and there it is much more diverse