It’s not even just Portland, it’s most of Southern Maine. Do you think the people of Westbrook, Cumberland, or Falmouth are mostly self reliant, living off the land type people?

Making the state of Maine seem like some wilderness survivalist utopia is pretty odd to me.

This may be true in some parts of rural Maine but I’ve lived in Maine for over 30 years and “self reliant” is not a trait I expect from most of my friends and family near Portland nor do we all expect critical infrastructure to be unavailable for long periods of time.

I was thinking something similar. It might just be that New England states have people reporting abuse at a higher rate. New York is also very high in that list