Wow. I thought OP was bad enough, but the NTAers are worse. "Lice-infested kids"?! "Driving around like beggars"?! "Sense of entitlement"?! How to tell the world that you're a bigoted snob without saying you're a bigoted snob.

“Your whine makes me kind of wish that people from the actual poor side of town come this year not with scary costumes but with real pitchforks” Perfect answer

Honestly, I don't get it. It smacks of apartheid: candy only for neighborhood children. Exaggerated perhaps. Still, my mother taught me that with privilege comes increased responsibility towards those who are less well-off. What's the big deal about sharing a tiny bit of your good fortune with others who have none? However that is, the underlying sentiment of OP's position is a very troubling one.

If the the OP doesn't like giving out candy to out of neighborhood kids he could just cut his outside lights off, go in the house, and do whatever rich boring to thing he does on Halloween. It's just that simple. Seems like he waisting energy complaining about lots of kids crowding his precious affluent neighborhood for one night.

We lived just outside the city where we lived, in the country (only about a mile), but it was enough that we only had about 6 neighbors. And it was dark as pitch. Mom used to take us to the mobile home community a few miles away. It was 'rich' for us. It was safe, mom knew where to find us, we got lots of candy. Perfect. It was mostly a retiree community and a lot of them were super generous.

Just turn off your lights and don't hand out candy. It's pretty simple. We don't have kids and e don't decorate our house for Halloween and we really don't celebrate the holiday in our house. For those reasons we don't hand out candy. We often just go out to dinner instead. There is no need for this man to be an a-hole about it. My neighbors have no issue with kids coming in from other neighborhoods and they also have no issue with the fact that we don't hand out candy. On occasion, I have go to friends' houses and helped one parent hand out candy while the other took the kids trick or treating.

I just want kids to have candy. We are a full size candy bar house and I don't care where the kids are from... I have heard kids say at least one home wouldn't give them candy because they didn't live there. How little generosity do you have in your heart to do that?

But who will think of the sad rich kids, having their streets overrun by poor peasents? (Sarcasm).

Yet another years old post...

This is what “tricks” is for?? 🤔

My favorite two parts was the one comment that said, "F**k your face." Nothing else needs to be said. My second favorite part was the NTAers outing themselves as a******s themselves. "They are coming to get the better candy from rich people." Yeah, no s**t. They're kids. Give them the f*****g candy.

I used to live in a trailer park. All the park kids would go to the "rich" part of town in the next town over. Knowing this, the owner of the park would sit at the entrance with the back of his SUV decorated up, handing out handfuls of full-sized candy bars and cans of soda.

Wtf!!! We truck to the best neighborhoods every year! We live on a rural route that's dangerous and impossible to trick or treat in. When I was a kid we lived in the only housing development in the town and EVERY ONE came there to trick or treat. It was awesome! Get over yourself! Halloween isn't just for those privileged enough to live in a nice neighborhood. Stop bitching about this cause you are making zero friends. I've never heard anyone complain about this in my entire life

I live in Denmark where trick or treating isn't that common, but some kids have started doing it. I've only experienced it once, but every year I stock up on treats in the hope that kids will come by. My aunt is Danish and lives in a part of town with nice houses and decorates her front driveway and garden with pumpkins and ghosts. Every year she buys a ton of sweets because she absolutely loves it when kids come knocking. Her neighbour on the opposite side of the road has the most creepy and awesome window decoration.

We had the same issue. Not just tons of kids that weren't from any of even our surrounding neighborhoods, but many teenagers and unsupervised kids without costumes just coming to grab our full sized bars. I was in a "bad Halloween" neighborhood for years--we went to church's, emergency responder's, and school's trunk or treat. Not the rich neighborhood--although I had friends who did.

I miss having tons of kids come by. Our neighborhood used to be *the* place for trick-or-treaters, with multiple homes doing haunted houses (three on our street alone, including us) and others going all-out with decorations. I remember one year we had over 400 people come through our haunt. Now it's pretty much just our house that does anything over-the-top, plus of course COVID kept a lot of people home the past few years.

As an adult, I've never lived in a place with trick-or-treaters - apartments. I have always wanted to hand out candy to a bunch of happy kids in costume. This guy is such a turd. I'm glad most people YTA'd him.

I guarantee he saw the NTAs and decided "See, I'm right". Can't stand pricks like that.

My UK experience was that wealthy neighbourhoods are bad for trick or treat. Few of the houses do it, the distance between houses is anyway larger, and the often older house owners aren't really into it. But then, it's an imported americanism I guess? Council estate or mixed/ex like I lived, I even got vodka jello shots as the adult, and people put much more heart into it; and when their kids are around they enjoyed it.

Giggle snort.. we do Halloween.. I men we *DO* Halloween! multiple projectors, animatronics, props we go *ALLLLL* out. We have real Zombies wandering in our graveyard and if you are brave you can enter the graveyard for bonus candy!! We are soo into Halloween our neighbors gave us permission to use their massive magnolia tree as part of our set up!! Do we get a tonne of kids? Nope. but we love every minute of it and WISH people would drive in to join us! I have also noticed that many of our neighbors are also getting more in the spirit each year and we love it!! There are sooo many very valid reasons people may not trick or treat their own neighborhood and we live for it!

I live on a steep hill and we never have Trick or Treaters. I'd love to give out candy to whomever comes.

Damn. During my childhood we had a fair number of treat or treaters every year. With each subsequent move in my life the # of kids out having a great night has decreased. I'm middle aged with kids of my own now and just finally managed to buy a house last year. NO kids the first Halloween. We asked a neighbor a few days later and it's just not a thing here. They trunk or treat at the school a week before and that's it. Hell, I was the only house to decorate last year. We were so deflated that this year we just put our projector out, didn't want to put in all the effort if no one was going to enjoy it. What I wouldn't give to have kids from anywhere within the bistate area come dressed up in their cutest or scariest with a great joke so I could give them a butterfinger.

Does he really think that poor kids don't deserve nice candy on Halloween? So when do they deserve it?

If you don't want to "do" Halloween, don't. Just don't assume anything about the people who do, and the kids they will help. I assure you, people who live in single family homes are not trucking in their kids to annoy you.

My friend lives in the neighborhood that kids flock to. It's somewhere in their purchase contract that this happens. Mr. Cheap A$$ may have had an out that his agent missed.

I miss having kids come to the door all dressed up in costume! It was bad enough at my mom's as the neighborhood kids grew up and there were less and less trick-or-treaters, but it's been years since I've had any at my apartment. I live in a big, old house in the preservation district of my city and there aren't alot of families living here. I'd love it if carloads of costumed little kids showed up at Halloween!

I don't particularly like people in general but I love handing out treats on Halloween. IDC where you and your kids live, everyone is welcome. I make goodie bags each year because I know everyone else just does candy. Fun light up head bands, flashing rings, glow stick wrist bands and necklaces, little toys of all sorts and one piece of candy each...it makes me so happy to do something fun. Heck, I'd make a full on haunted house if I had the time and money to do it. (Should add that I particularly enjoy adding in things that glow or have lights in hopes that the kids will wear them and it's easier for the parents can keep an eye on them. I try to think about those as the treats for the moms and dads trying to keep their kids in eyesight and out of harms way if a distracted driver goes by or if their kid/s dash off. My nephew was notorious for disappearing into other groups of kids on Halloween when he was younger so that's why I add flashing/glowing things now)

“Oh no. The peasants are coming. I thought I wouldn’t have to deal with that riffraff when I moved to this AFFLUENT neighborhood.” Affluent: having a great deal of money; wealthy.

Hell, I wish the trick or treaters would come by our place. Over two decades and we haven't had the first one. The only thing I can agree on with this guy is that with so many people, the traffic must be a nightmare in the neighborhood.

What an a*****e