I have lived in Maine my whole life and traveled outside of it plenty of times. I do feel we are a bit better when it comes to our overall safety as well as good natured residents, however there are still crimes here and you should always keep your instincts in check.

I live in a bigger city here and one day leaving my apartment there was a man bleeding out in the street near a barber shop, he had been stabbed by someone else over an affair. It was pretty shocking as it was my first experience with something like this. Come to find out it was people from out of state just up here visiting and when I look into the worst of crime in our cities most are drug related and most involve people from here getting wrapped up with other states criminals, especially NH, MA and CT.

There are other instances where we get alerts of people trying to lure people from parking lots stating they need help but come to find out they were most likely involved in human trafficking.

All that being said I do feel that those are very low instances in comparison to other states but we also have smaller population and very quickly you can go from a city and bam you are in the middle of nowhere haha. We luck out in those regards.

Maine folk really are good people, we are big on helping others but also don't bother us we won't bother you. It really is the way life should be :)