>>13581814>Halloween is dead and barely anyone actually does it anymore.This, it's fucking sad. I think the change happened over a 10-15 year period though. Even in the early-mid 2000s Halloween was still a huge deal for kids. I think the last time I went trick or treating was probably like 2003 or 2004, sometime when I was in middle school, and the neighborhood was packed. You'd see at least 5-10 groups of kids on each side of the street on every block. Often times you had to wait to trick or treat at someone's door. There'd be so many kids around you'd basically have to line up almost at each house.
Now it's a ghost town. My parents get maybe 20-30 kids the entire night, and half of them aren't even from the neighborhood, they're inner city niglets. You can usually see their mom waiting nearby in a rusted out 90s minivan. Most of the kids don't even say "trick or treat". They just knock on the door and hold out their bag demanding candy. It's become soulless.
Tbh I think it's a symptom of demographic decline more than anything else. The neighborhood I grew up in does not have a ton of young families anymore. Most of the residents are closer to my parents' age, their kids moved out and live in cuckbox apartments in the city, the few people who do have kids have 1 maybe 2 kids at the most
