Neighborhoods to go trick-or-treating?
 

Hey guys,

I am assuming that some members have young ones or nieces and nephews.

Can you recommend a good neighborhood to go trick or treating for Halloween?

We tried the mall last year and it was a gong show. Hoping someone can provide some good spots - preferably toddler friendly.

Thanks!
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anywhere around an elementary school

seems like less and less people every year though .... last year I took some cousins and just ended up buying em a box of candy at the end of the night because there was maybe only ~15 houses in our area actually handing out candy

Would be helpful to know where you're located...

Any newish neighbourhood will do. The families are young. The houses are packed close together. I'm near the mall in Langley, and my it was busy last year.

I'd suggest heading to Langley/Clayton Heights area. Small neighbourhoods with young families. The houses are also really close together so your little ones won't get too tired too quickly.

Isn't the tradition to trick or treat around your own neighborhood?

Some neighbourhoods are not really ideal....I am surrounded by apartment buildings. Not the best place to trick or treat.

My house. I'll give you all the candy I have leftover from kids not ringing my doorbell past Halloweens.
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Anywhere in richmond all suburbs
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That's where I live. My street we get maybe 10-15 kids for the last 5 years, my buddy 2 blocks away 400+ every year he runs out of candy.

We live in a condo in yaletown. So around my neighborhood is a no go. Keep the suggestions coming!
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North Van. Especially the area around Edgemont village where tons of kids are cuz of (highlands, canyon heights, Cleveland, elementary). Generally very safe here and lots of old people live in the area. As an added bonus they give out good candy too.

i found it very nice to go to the neighbourhoods on around main st. Dont come to west van, hardly anyone give out treats.

Hit up all the Condo's in the building.

head to the rich areas like west van or westwood plateau

I live in a house on Canada way beside bcit....I haven't had a kid come to my house in 15 years. if your in Burnaby, tons of people head to green tree village which is behind bcit...hundreds of town houses all connected together. place is a gold mine!

Champlain Heights, all townhouse complexes

Huh?

Go to the british properties in west van. Sure the houses are far apart and the roads are hilly, but you actually get good candy. instead of lollipops and rockets, you get mars bars and snickers. Many houses give full size candy bars, and many houses will give kids LOTS of candy because they buy a big box and only get two or three kids that actually brave the weather and hills to go trick or treating.

I lived in a house with a pretty long driveway, and used to dump about half of one of those boxes of kit-kats and coffee crisps into every kids bag, of course I would always have leftovers to eat for the next couple days.:fullofwin:

And there were always the houses that simply left out bowls of candy and went away for the night, these are like jackpots if you are asshole enough to take all the candy they leave out. (if you go around 630 to 7ish you can make it to these houses before anyone else).

I bet you're one of those sick freaks who hand out organic pesticide free apples with a Merkur razor blade inside them and along with it, a pamphlet that says "Don't eat meat!" on the front.

it seems like the Halloween tradition of going trick-o-treating is dying, few years back, when i handed out candies, i always ran out, but now, i have boxes left over. Although, I have to say that langley area might be a good place to trick-o-treat since there's probably a rising young family population

I live really close to Magee, and 2 years ago we were having a big family dinner (older cousin was getting married the day after), my then 8 year old cousin decided she wanted to try handing out candy instead of going around trick-o-treating. Not a single person knocked on our door that night, even though we left our gates opened and we had our outside lights on.

Us cousins had a lot of candy to eat the next few weeks :lol

we've always given full sized bars but less and less people come each year but we still buy the same amount "just in case" as a result each kid usually gets several bars :lol


Side Note, the radio was stating that a lot of schools aren't allowing kids to dress up for halloween because the schools don't want to offend any religions :rukidding:

Do kids still flock to shopping malls instead of neighbourhoods?

I guess florescent lighting is scary :O

Is halloween dying? Or is it just dead in vancouver?
Old man reminiscing here but I was running around with garbage bags back in the day back on the east coast.

I only take my kids to malls now.. much safer.. heard nasty things about idiots that put razors inside stuff... it may not be the traditional way like when we were kids back then.. but it was safer then too... times have changed...