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[Takuhi]

So after 15 years of living in apartments and rural areas, I was so excited for our first Halloween in our new house in the suburbs. It's a good neighborhood, at least 20 kids on our street alone, and we were anticipating a massive amount of trick-or-treaters. The weather was even nice for once.

We got three.

I called my Mom, who still lives in the neighborhood where I grew up, and where trick-or-treaters used to cover the streets like locusts. We used to go through ten bags of candy per Halloween, but she said "oh, no one comes anymore. They go trick-or-treating at the mall or at their parents' employer's campus."

WHAT THE HELL. Is this the way the world is now? Is my kid doomed to grow up trick-or-treating in goddamn shopping malls? Or is this just a fluke?

 

[Data West]

I got 72

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I hear they don't say "trick or treat" anymore either.

 

[notsol337]

I didn't even buy candy this year. I didn't see a point. Last year I got 2 kids. 2.

This year, I didn't get any. I'm kinda sad about it.

 

[SoulPlaya]

I live in a great neighborhood, but this year was pretty low compared to past years. I wayyy overbought on candy (and I don't eat the stuff). Then again, it's a really cold day in Chicago, so I expected it to be less. It seems much colder today than I remember it in years past.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

We had a hurricane a couple days ago and got a lot more than 3. Something suspicious with your neighborhood

 

[coldvein]

everybody is afraid of everybody now

 

[Takuhi]

I got 72

Nice. Where do you live?

 

[sp3000]

I didn't even buy candy this year. I didn't see a point. Last year I got 2 kids. 2.

This year, I didn't get any. I'm kinda sad about it.

Yeah. I used to get around 10 kids for years.

Last year and this year. Zero.

It is sort of sad.

 

[Kangi]

I went through four large bowls full of candy. I wish I could say I have your problem.

 

[suaveric]

Last year we had none, so I egarly bought all my favorite candy this year in anticipation of eating it tomorrow. Instead we got almost completely wiped out. WTF

 

[Data West]

Nice. Where do you live?

I live in Philly, but I'm visiting family in Alabama. Suburban area.

There's definitely less kids than when I was a kid though. This is the house/neighborhood I grew up in, and it used to be that we'd skip houses because the wait was too long. It helps that there's a really good front yard in the neighborhood with lots of scary stuff.

 

[Ferrio]

A ton here. Went through 80 dollars of candy.

 

[IceCold]

I got maybe 15-20. Most houses aren't decorated anymore either.

 

[7Th]

I got at least 20... groups of 4-5 kids. And I live in Mexico!

 

[akira28]

I went through four large bowls full of candy. I wish I could say I have your problem.

I wish we had yours. With no more children being born, the future looks pretty grim.

 

[Takuhi]

I went through four large bowls full of candy. I wish I could say I have your problem.

And I wish I had yours. I'll mail you my massive pile of unopened bags of candy.

 

[tycoonheart]

I got about 30-35.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

We got like... 60-70. Went through a big box of chips and a few bags/boxes of candy.

It's only 8 and we already ran out of candy, which sucks. Kids are still coming and we have to turn them away.

Dunno where the OP lives, we got a bunch of kids and they all say trick-or-treat except for the really little ones whose first Halloween it is. Actually, it feels like the turn out is a bit slower this year since it was running a ton earlier.

 

[sikkinixx]

Gout about 30-40 here, but it's been in large groups. Kinda depressing really. And the kids upstairs only go out for about an hour and a half. We used to be out at first dark until 9:30 or so.

 

[Kastrioti]

I'm in the middle of a Southern California suburbia, and we didn't have any kids. It was kind of depressing to tell you the truth. It's a really nice neighborhood but todays society seems scared shitless of each other.

 

[Fjordson]

Getting a ton here in San Francisco.

Though there's been a fair share of older kids (like 17-18 years old it seems) who just threw on a Giants jersey. "Uh, I'm a baseball player".

 

[Alucrid]

I got zero, now I have all this fucking candy

 

[Tobor]

5 or 6 groups of kids here. 3 to 4 kids per group.

The rest of the candy is mine! Muahahahaha!!!!

/throws up

 

[Deraldin]

So after 15 years of living in apartments and rural areas, I was so excited for our first Halloween in our new house in the suburbs. It's a good neighborhood, at least 20 kids on our street alone, and we were anticipating a massive amount of trick-or-treaters. The weather was even nice for once.

We got three.

I called my Mom, who still lives in the neighborhood where I grew up, and where trick-or-treaters used to cover the streets like locusts. We used to go through ten bags of candy per Halloween, but she said "oh, no one comes anymore. They go trick-or-treating at the mall or at their parents' employer's campus."

WHAT THE HELL. Is this the way the world is now? Is my kid doomed to grow up trick-or-treating in goddamn shopping malls? Or is this just a fluke?

I live on a street that is almost entirely seniors where the houses are on decent sized lots with space between houses and am about a block away from much more densely populated townhouses with lots of kids. It was also raining. We still managed a dozen people before we shut down for the evening at 9pm.

There is something wrong with your neighbourhood.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

I got about 30 (or 8-12 groups of kids), which is a lot given it was raining.

 

[akira28]

Turn kids away? Just turn out the light and go watch Unsolved Mysteries. Mission Accomplished and Happy Holloween.

 

[The Culture Vulture]

Live in a small town and there was a ton of kids out tonight.

 

[jchap]

Turn kids away? Just turn out the light and go watch Unsolved Mysteries. Mission Accomplished and Happy Holloween.

Or put up a "registered sex offender" sign on the door

 

[Astral]

My neighborhood is mostly full of old people. My house is hidden too so I never get any kids anyway. I think I may have had one group of kids ever. I didn't have any candy because they weren't supposed to find my house.

 

[Darkgran]

I had maybe 100-150 tonight....

 

[K.Sabot]

This town is like 70% evangelical christians that don't believe in Halloween.

 

[Corran Horn]

Got like 40 people. I guess its okay because place I was renting a few years ago we got like 2 people.

 

[Drakeon]

Huh, I thought it was only my house. I just moved to a new apartment in a different city, so I had no idea what to expect at my new place, but thus far, I've gotten one group of like 6 kids. I wasn't expecting many, to be honest, 20 max.

At my old house, each year less and less kids came til we just started turning off the lights and not handing out candy cause we'd only get a handful of kids anyways.

 

[Cipherr]

Got about twelve, thats about the average here since we moved here. Nothing like it was when I was a kid though, there were masses of us. I think times have just changed.

 

[Duke Togo]

Over 180. COME AT ME

 

[Takuhi]

I'm in the middle of a Southern California suburbia, and we didn't have any kids. It was kind of depressing to tell you the truth. It's a really nice neighborhood but todays society seems scared shitless of each other.

I totally feel you. I am oddly super depressed about this.

What's there to be afraid of? Was there a rash of child murders during Halloween that I missed or something?

 

[Goodacre0081]

we haven't had kids trick or treat in our neighborhood for 15+ years. nobody wants eke out a candy haul on dark rural roads.

also, trick or treating in malls? when did this become a thing?

 

[Data West]

I totally feel you. I am oddly super depressed about this.

What's there to be afraid of? Was there a rash of child murders during Halloween that I missed or something?

With the invention of the internet, we're made more aware now than ever before of how much fucked up shit happens. That's why garage doors used to be open all the time. It's a repercussion of the information age.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I hope it is ending. Halloween needs to change into something else.

 

[Dishwalla]

That's crazy. I remember as a kid going out from neighborhood to neighborhood and they were all packed full of other kids doing the same thing. Trick or treating was something that lasted a good 5-6 hours, not just an hour or two. Miss those days.

 

[Escape Goat]

I hope it is ending. Halloween needs to change into something else.

Why? You aren't being forced to give out candy.

 

[Ruze789]

I'm in a small town in Nh and there were lots of kids out. Wife and I take the little one out trick or treating and a lot of houses ran out of candy because there were so many kids.

 

[gwarm01]

I got quite a few kids. Not as many as I used to get, but still enough to make it worthwhile. This is in the south.

 

[Derrick01]

I haven't gotten any at the house in over 5 years and as I grow older and crankier I like it. The last thing I want to do at night is get up every 5 minutes to answer the door.

 

[MrDenny]

Sometimes elementary schools designate certain neighborhoods nearby for trick or treating.
Leaving the other neighborhoods basically a ghost town.

 

[aceface]

Got over 150. Small town America FTW. (sucks in most non-Halloween aspects though)

HATE those Halloween parades at the mall and shit.

 

[SRG01]

Over 180. COME AT ME

That's like... 3 every minute if we're talking about 6pm-9pm o_o

 

[vas_a_morir]

When I was a kid in the 90's, it was PACKED out on the streets.

This year was a first: We got 0 kids. 0! Weather had a lot to do with that... but man, this fucking makes me sad as shit. We used to get 100 kids.

 

[Trurl]

I hope it is ending. Halloween needs to change into something else.

Into what? An excuse to dress like a sexy smurf?

Your opinion stinks.