Sounds like a nice place to be.
My old hometown of Reno, Nevada has changed a great deal but did have various crimes while I lived there. Seems much more dangerous now.
Also lived in Denver for a year; a summer and a few pieces of summers in the Phoenix, AZ area; five and a half years in Minneapolis; nine years in Palm, Harbor, FL; four months near some of O'Hare Airport's flight airways in Itasca, IL; and the first nine years in a suburb of Milwaukee, WI. And about six years and many visits from Minneapolis to the Sonoma County, CA wine producing area.
Child Sex Trafficking
My guess is that many of these places do have problems with child sex trafficking.
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
The town I came from didn't have any significant crimes against kids. A few were abused by their own parents and one was sexually assaulted by a relative. By and large though, it was a pretty vanilla town where "family values" actually meant something more than a political meme. People valued family, including their neighborhoods, the schools, the kids. A handful of kids were rotten to the core and we felt bad for the parents. That's pretty standard in most suburbs though. We had no one go missing, there were two murder incidents in a 30-year span (one was murder-suicide of his own family, the other was a guy who shot and killed the bartender after some kind of previous argument). A couple of months where there were house burglaries and car break-ins, but they caught the guys who were doing it and that stopped.
It's a great town. An idyllic New England suburb.
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