Is West End Safe to Stay at?
Hi everyone,
For context I’m visiting my family in Maine the first time as an adult and needing my own place to stay for the week. I’ve found an air bnb near Deering Oaks Park in the West End of Portland and everywhere I’ve looked I’ve seen nothing but great reviews from the listing as well as Reddit and online. But then there’s some posts I see where it mentions the homeless community has increased and there has been crime reported. I just want to be so for sure before staying there because I have stayed in an air bnb before in a neighborhood with nothing but good reviews only to have my car broken into and stuff stolen so I really don’t want a redo of that. And after staying there and reporting the crime the locals said they could have told us not to stay there, so I’m hoping for some local opinion.
Any advice is helpful thank you!