Does anybody drive their kids to different (better?) neighborhoods to do their trick-or-treating?
I live in a large condo complex and while there are resident kids, I’ve never, ever gotten any trick-or-treaters in all the time I’ve lived here. My city downtown has an organized trick-or-treat/party event for kids, and my local mall lets kids go trick-or-treating from the merchants there. Between these two events, I surmise that many of my local kids don’t go from house to house anymore. My parents live in a very nice upper-middle-class suburb and they do get trick-or-treaters, thankfully without parents following them around in cars.
Once we wised up as kids, we always got our parents to drop us off across town. Our neighborhood: long driveways, no sidewalks, lots of dark houses where they’d given up on trick-or-treaters. Fun neighborhood: lots of nice middle-class houses, close together, sidewalks and streetlights. Safer, more fun, and more candy because of the density.
Yes. Every nice (not fancy, but clean; owner-occupied; well-lit streets; decorations on houses) neighborhood I’ve lived in as an adult has been a destination for kids from other parts of town (not sure if this is because those parts are poorer, or more dangerous, or have houses farther apart, or what).
