Halloween numbers are down this year.

[hunter]

7. We had more trick-or-treaters than we've ever had.

Some children of the children our children grew up with are now old enough to go trick-or-treating.

There are a lot of multi-generational households in our neighborhood, possibly the result of high housing costs, but cultural too.

Our children moved away to big cities but many of their schoolmates did not.

My wife and I do not live in a 99% white suburban neighborhood like the one I grew up in where many parents considered themselves failures if their adult children and grandchildren lived with them.

So far, knock on wood, ICE has mostly left our city alone. The major multi-billion dollar business here is agriculture and many of my neighbors work in industries that support that -- mechanics, refrigeration techs, truckers, teachers, etc.. Their parents or their grandparents were likely to have been field workers and some of the people they share their homes with still are.