Don’t Miss: Two key updates to our Ultimate Trick or Treating Guide

Anonymous CHS reader writes:
10/12/2006 7:33 AM
Welcome to Halloween on Capitol Hill – you are in for a big surprise: we are the “it” place for kids to load up on their holiday loot. Seriously, families bus their kids in from less affluent neighborhoods to cash in on our goodies. Last year we had over 250 kids knock on our door. North Capitol Hill is also appealing because the streets are less steep then other areas and many of them don’t go through so less car traffic.

This correlates with the candy continuum we identified as children roaming the streets of a small town in NorCal.

• Poor people don’t give out much candy.
• Middle class folks give out the most candy.
• Rich people give out the best candy.
• Really rich people are like poor people.

So, back in the day, we hunted out areas of our town we thought had the most rich people. But it was all based on gut instinct. We couldn’t really optimize our candy acquisition opportunities.

Kids today, boy are you lucky. You have an amazing tool to identify this sweet spot. Zillow.com.

Their $/sqft heat maps give you a never-before-available forecast of what neighborhoods will be doling out the king size Baby Ruths and where you’re likely to be lucky to get a fun-size M&Ms. This is trick-or-treat gold, children. Listen up.

We’ve translated the Zillow spectrum to a sugar acquisition model we call the Capitol Hill Seattle Candy Action scale. Use this gauge to, first, zero in on key neighborhoods and then fine-tune your assault street by street. To the right, you can see the general Capitol Hill zone and, most importantly, the concentration of candy-laden streets near the big green park holes. Note also the dark red patches in Madison Park and Madrona. For more information, see the “Really rich” note above. These people have king-size Baby Ruths — but they wil not give them to you.

Kids, we hope you put the 2006 Ultimate Guide to Fancy Pants Capitol Hill Trick-or-treating to great use whether you decide to collect sugar on the cool, new Halloween on Saturday the 28th or you have to wait for the outdated 31st event. Happy Halloween!

–j