Neighborhoods to go trick-or-treating? [Archive]

Wetordry

10-09-2013, 05:47 PM

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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BrRsn

10-09-2013, 05:57 PM

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

punkwax

10-09-2013, 06:01 PM

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

Presto

10-09-2013, 06:04 PM

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.

dinosaur

10-09-2013, 06:11 PM

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.

Redlines_Daily

10-09-2013, 06:15 PM

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

dinosaur

10-09-2013, 06:19 PM

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.

SpeedStars

10-09-2013, 07:59 PM

My house. I'll give you all the candy I have leftover from kids not ringing my doorbell past Halloweens.
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H.Specter

10-09-2013, 08:03 PM

When I was 12 I had my first sexual experience. At the time, I lived in a little suburb outside of Cleveland and anyway, the girl next door and I were really good friends. Our parents were both gone for the day and she was over playing Transformers with me. So anyway, we kinda got. Bored I guess? And we started playing truth or dare, which turned into 'you show me yours, I'll show you mine". So anyway there I Was, 12 years old, heart pounding, blood rushing in my ears, and the chick (who was a year older than me actually) takes off her panties and hikes her little skirt up. So what did I do, you ask? I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought "naw forget it, yo home to bel-air!" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie "yo homes smell ya later!" Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there. To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air.

Sid Vicious

10-09-2013, 08:08 PM

quasi

10-09-2013, 08:25 PM

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.

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.

Wetordry

10-09-2013, 08:27 PM

We live in a condo in yaletown. So around my neighborhood is a no go. Keep the suggestions coming!
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kluk

10-09-2013, 09:07 PM

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.

Recon604

10-09-2013, 09:11 PM

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

Manic!

10-09-2013, 09:36 PM

We live in a condo in yaletown. So around my neighborhood is a no go. Keep the suggestions coming!
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Hit up all the Condo's in the building.

stewie

10-09-2013, 09:39 PM

head to the rich areas like west van or westwood plateau

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

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!

fliptuner

10-09-2013, 09:41 PM

Champlain Heights, all townhouse complexes

meme405

10-09-2013, 10:39 PM

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

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).

bcrdukes

10-09-2013, 10:43 PM

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

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.

kkthind

10-09-2013, 10:44 PM

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

Ikkaku

10-09-2013, 10:44 PM

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

StylinRed

10-09-2013, 10:48 PM

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:

GS8

10-09-2013, 11:25 PM

Do kids still flock to shopping malls instead of neighbourhoods?

I guess florescent lighting is scary :O

Ludepower

10-09-2013, 11:33 PM

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.

FerrariEnzo

10-09-2013, 11:56 PM

StylinRed

10-10-2013, 12:38 AM

but it was safer then too...

:suspicious: we always had warnings of razors in candies back when we were kids and i seem to recall local cases hitting the news more often then too

just check your kids haul :)

Mr.HappySilp

10-10-2013, 01:38 AM

punkwax

10-10-2013, 07:10 AM

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...

Sorry had to fail because you're living in fear. Its your job as a parent to inspect the candy.

My neighbourhood is fantastic at halloween. Just about every house is decorated and maybe 2 or 3 out of the ~50 homes on our route don't participate. Lots of kids running from door to door collecting candy, just like when I was a kid.

Recon604

10-10-2013, 08:48 AM

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).

my bad,i meant west side of van, like around granville st. and oak.

dinosaur

10-10-2013, 08:59 AM

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.

DON'T ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME, BRO!!

Hondaracer

10-10-2013, 09:12 AM

They said that the whole razor thing was actually a myth and there was never a report (in Canada) at least of it happening
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melloman

10-10-2013, 10:32 AM

If your in Burnaby, it's still crowded around the 2nd Street Elementary school. They also have a fireworks show every year. :thumbsup:

highfive

10-10-2013, 11:34 AM

The razor thing is a myth.

I went to one of those old bungalows and you see his creepy old hippie guy inside. You would stereotype of think that this isn't the house to trick or treat at but you know what...the guy inside is probably one of the more kids friendly homes and gave out lots of candy.

I just hope it doesn't rain like last year so time won't be cut so short.

Skittlez160

10-10-2013, 03:54 PM

The last time I went trick-or-treating was with my buddy and his little nephews.

We were in the vicinity or Cambie and King Edward area. To be more specific, it was W. 16th to King Edward and between Oak and Cambie. Almost every house participated and almost all of them were very generous.

meme405

10-10-2013, 05:40 PM

Anyone else go to the Dave Chapelle's comedy tour? He talked about razor's in candy.

He was bang on about it. Anyone who does this is likely an idiot.

I mean what do you do, put a razor in a piece of candy then the next day you pray and scour all the newspapers to see if some kid was hurt by a razor blade in his candy?

MG1

10-10-2013, 07:24 PM

Solar West. It's a complex just west of Boundary Road near Rumble. My sister lives close by and I used to take my kids there all the time. Houses so close together and they always gave good stuff. Now this was like 20 years ago, LOL, but I can't imagine it being different today.

As a parent it was like heaven on a hellish night. You could just stand there and watch the kids go to like 15 doors and they'd be within sight.

stewie

10-10-2013, 07:40 PM

Don't come around d BCIT (norfolk). There is like no giving out candies . I think because there isn't many family with kids. Last year I got a bag of kit kat and less than 5 people knock on my door. Around 9lish one kid knock on the door and I gave him the whole bag of candies.

if you live near Norfolk and bcit...im walking up and down the street till I find your house.

i'll be the guy that's half drunk, in shorts and a wife beater with stains all over it, sandals and a cigar.

I want snickers this time...none of that kit kat shit :)

Redlines_Daily

10-10-2013, 10:10 PM

I mean what do you do, put a razor in a piece of candy then the next day you pray and scour all the newspapers to see if some kid was hurt by a razor blade in his candy?

Um..ya, that's probably what that guy would do if he put a razor in a candy.

Windstar

10-10-2013, 11:53 PM

Surrey newton area. Lotssssss of kids and houses giving out candy. Surrey is for families who want cheap housing, so lots of kids.

buddha1

10-11-2013, 08:39 AM

westwood plateau in coquitlam

Traum

10-11-2013, 08:56 AM

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:
Dafuq?!

Since my elementary school days, all the way through ugrad, people have always dressed up for Hallowe'en. Not everybody does, but at least a portion of students and teachers and staff always join in on the fun. I distinctly remember that back in elementary school, teachers encouraged us to dress up, even if it was only something simple like face paint or a simple rubber mask.

In any case, I thought most trick or treating now happens at the malls. It is not the same experience as it was, but at least it is still something.