I haven't seen house with a porch light in this entire city. I don't think anyone even has a porch, not that anyone here is familiar with that custom anyway. If they want to come, they will come, and there's nothing to do but ignore the rings and knocks or else face them down and turn them away. I admit our Halloween culture is significantly different from your own, as is, apparently, our architecture, and that is why there is significant resistance to the practice of trick-or-treating. I don't expect to ever meet you or your daughter one October evening, and if I ever do find myself resident in the states then I now know to leave the porch light off at night. But American culture is one of the State's biggest exports to Britain, and we're not very good at it.
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