Who gives out better/more Halloween candy; the rich neighborhood, or the middle-class neighborhood?

I would think that the rich might arrange not to be home on Halloween. Also, there are fewer houses per square mile so in terms of quantity, you would do better in the less wealthy neighborhood.

I would say the people in the rich neighborhood will not even be home, they are so busy working overtime to pay for their fancy houses. The middle class neighborhood probably really get into the halloween spirit with their kids so they probably buy prety good candy.

Around here, the middle-class neighborhoods have the most and best Halloween loot. The dentists are thrilled.

I would say 50/50.

More people giving out candy on the “poor“neighborhood.

The rich not being bothered with door knocking. Or answering the door for that matter.
And, the ones that do give out “better” candy or have a party.

I agree with @marinelife. Growing up in Las Vegas, my friends and I thought we would strike gold if we visited Liberace’s house. He lived several blocks away.We walked the extra distance with high hopes. His doorman passed out bags of pennies. Not exactly what we were hoping for. :/

I’d love to knock on the door at Buckingham Palace on Halloween night. “Tiara for Halloween!” i’d shout. Something tells me i’d be out of luck though.

As a kid, I remember going to this rich guys house and he would always give out king size candy bars!

I have lived in both “neighborhoods” for several years each. I’d say in my experiences.. it evens out. You may get better candy in the wealthier neighborhood, but not as much. On the other hand, you have way more houses (which means more FUN) in the neighborhood with smaller homes that are closer together.
The candy tends to vary no matter where you are.

In my neighborhood, which is more upper class, the houses are few and far between and many of them have gates and long driveways. It’s not exactly trick-or-treat friendly. Most of my trick-or-treating was done back when I lived in Vegas, but here when I was younger, I’d go trick-or-treating with my friends in the more middle-to-upper-middle class neighborhoods where most of my friends lived and where the houses are smaller and closer to the road. A lot more trick-or-treaters there.

I never really noticed a difference in the candy. :\ It was all pretty much the same. It’s not like people in the rich neighborhood gave out imported Swiss chocolate or anything…

One Halloween my friends and I trick-or-treated at Bill Gates’ house. Of course, Bill himself didn’t answer the door – instead we were greeted by a smiling woman who handed candy through a drawer from a booth-like room made from stainless steel and 2 inch thick bulletproof glass windows. For some reason there were, like, 4 computers on the shelf in front of her. Even though we were being obnoxious teenagers and asking her all kinds of impertinent questions, she never spoke a word – just handed out a rather meager amount of candy and closed her drawer. Even though we didn’t get much reward for our efforts at the Gates compound I’ll never forget my friend’s parting stab, “Those must all be Linux machines in there, right?”

All the rich neighborhoods around here are limited access only, with a guard shack at the gate. The best place to get Candy is the apartment communities, where there are 100’s of people living in a one block area.

@camertron LOL! I love that story! The little drawer and the bullet proof glass. Just like at the ones at the gas stations in the dangerous parts of town, but probably a lot nicer. How… I don’t know what? Sterile, clinical maybe. Obviously not much oohing and aahhing at the Gates mansion over the little ones in their costumes. He should at least put an animatronic woman in there, to add a little humanity to the experience for the kids. That kind of thing might be fun for them.

Go to both, then you’ll be able to compare for real, and gain some perspective.

I live in a middle-middle class development and I have never heard anyone comment on the quality or quantity of our candy. I did, however, learn from one woman that she brought her kids to trick or treat in our neighborhood rather than her own because almost all the houses here have brass door knockers on them rather than doorbells (it’s a tract housing development build in the mid 1950s; I don’t know if that sort of thing is common or if it is common in some places to not have transitioned to door bells. I’m pretty fond of the door knocker myself) and her kids just liked the door knockers.

I bet the middle-class neighborhoods give out better candy… I have the candy for so long, I forget who it comes from