Posted on 10/30/2011 9:15:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Are you looking for a local neighborhood to take your children trick-or-treating? We have an exclusive guide to the best neighborhoods, filled with haunts and treats galore.
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If I was in one of those neighborhoods being reported....I’d likely turn off the lights, and pretend like we weren’t home...this is like WELFARE for kids....
Long about 20 years ago I was living in a nice suburb, and a mom with her two kids came to the door, she'd DRIVEN them there, apparently they didn't live in that suburb, but it's possible that they might not have been safe trick-or-treating in their own neighborhood. So Mom took her pirate and ballerina off to a friendlier, safer neighborhood with better treats.
Which neighbourhoods drop Iphones and tablets into kiddy bags?
I’ll dress up and go there.
Let me guess: These are all upscale white neighborhoods. Don’t go trick-or-treating elsewhere, because it’s a zoo out there. People ask what is becoming of our country, but in the cities it has already become. Welcome to Beirut.
There have always been some inner city kids who trick or treated in my neighborhood. Didn’t have a problem, since I couldn’t imagine going door to door in some neighborhoods.
...but growing up in a middle-class neighborhood, I would never have considered going into some rich area so I could get some full-size Snicker bars instead of the little ones.
I think it’s very tacky to drive your kids to some other neighborhood and drop them off for trick-or-treating.
It becomes a sort of entitlement thing too. I have lived in some nice neighborhoods that some might see as very affluent. Carloads of kids would be dropped off at Halloween to fill, literally, pillowcases with “free” candy — you know, that the “rich” people can afford to give out to everyone.
The thing that is also stupid and greedy about this is that a person can go to Wal-Mart and, especially the day after Halloween, buy dozens of pounds of candy and not spend $10.00. Yet kids are being taught it’s so much more fun to get that candy “free” from strangers.
this is one of the reasons I don’t do trick or treat any more. that and the older kids. if you’re old enough for high school you’re too old to trick or treat. especially by the time you’re old enough to drive!
Pretty much what it is. Some like Pacific Palisades and Newport Beach, are very, very upscale.
Why not direct them to Gardena or other south central paradise?
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