I am sorry that your experience was bad..Actually the most common complaint in our PCA is that they do not teach the doctrines of grace enough
As for free will.. Calvinists do not deny that men have free will.. but that free will is subject to the nature of the man and the circumstances of his choices which is determined by God.
My PCA teaches it plenty, but it is a small church. I visited some larger ones before. One was fine but largely seemed dead to me. The other did almost all contemporary music and otherwise didn’t seem very Reformed at all.
I found a great one now...even sing one Psalm a service. Very liturgical, and election probably comes up once a service.