You can do it with localbitcoins on a easy way and you can indeed meet the seller ask a lot of options for payment and its also that its pretty safe due to the feedback system it has.
As a trader, You need to pay some funds to LocalBitcoins in every trade you do. Better try to use free escrow here in the forum by finding the right person near to your place and have trade with them.
Others preferred meetup especially in Facebook social media groups.
But here for minimizing the risk, we can talk with the trusted escrows here. Although the word trusted can't applied to all escrows here except for the forum owner, it's not wrong to take a trust in those names that already established a good reputation here.
It's good to sell your bitcoins in a reputable exchange and that is effortless than finding a person that will stand as a escrow of your transaction between the buyer, nowadays, selling and buying of bitcoin is made easy so that is not a big problem IMO.