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Originally Posted by EmmaJane  This is all really fascinating! I had no idea that so few families were trcik-or-treating in their own neighborhoods. What a terrific case study for the whole bowling-alone-new-urbanist-whatever crowd.
I live in a dense neighborhood of Victorian houses, with straight streets and sidewalks, very walkable. We are assaulted every year by ToTers. My goodness. This year was a little slower than last year---I think because local town each pick an official time slot, and this year those coincided; no opportunity for double dipping. We still got farm kids, but not so many from other towns.
What shocked me, socioeconomically, was actually the costumes. Maybe 5% of the costumes were homemade?! Some kids in outrageously complex things, some in Walmart-issue nylon, and many of the poorer kids didn't even bother?! That made me sad. (And guilty; little T. was in a dragon suit that's a hand-me-down from a coastal city friend, and way above local standards.)
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We live on a farm so we don't really have a community to go T or Ting in. Oddly enough that is one of the things I'm looking forward to (there aren't many)is having neighbors that I'm not related to, T or Ters, and decorating the yard. I didn't see many homemade costumes either. I didn't make DS' but I am going to give it a go next year. I did see a TON of teens dress up as girls from the 80s and hardly anyone was dressed up as anything scary.
