You’d think owning property in Texas means you call the shots on who’s living in it. Then a stranger moves into your vacant rental, won’t leave, and you find out it’s not that simple. Texas squatter law has some twists that catch even folks who’ve owned property here for decades. The rules also changed in…
Some passengers leave good manners on the ground, according to a 2024 YouGov survey that asked for flyers’ feedback on in-flight etiquette. Whereas most California travelers are “on board” with the idea that watching a movie without headphones on is unacceptable behavior, others question why anyone would be bothered by a passenger using a laptop…
You probably don’t think twice about the way you talk. Then a relative visits from up north, you say something perfectly normal, and they look at you like you’ve sprouted a second head. Florida has a vocabulary all its own, stitched together from the Old South, Cuban Miami, and the swamp. Transplants catch on eventually….
Your phone buzzes with a text about an unpaid toll. Your email says your account’s been locked. A pop-up screams that your computer has a virus. Every one of these is bait, and the hook on the end of it is your bank account. Scammers have gotten slick, and New Yorkers make tempting targets. The…
Welcome to Florida, where the first of June doesn’t mean summer. It means hurricane season. If you moved down here from somewhere that doesn’t get these storms, your instincts are about to lead you wrong in a few important ways. The good news is that every one of these mistakes is easy to avoid once…
Pennsylvania has been around long enough to collect some seriously strange stories. Some of them have answers nobody agrees on, and some have no answers at all. Here are the homegrown mysteries that still get Pennsylvanians talking. The Kecksburg UFO On a December night in 1965, something streaked across the sky over western Pennsylvania and…
Growing up in Texas, you grow up on stories. The lights in the desert. The thing under the bridge. The rider with no head. They get told at sleepovers and around campfires, dared into existence on Friday-night drives down dark country roads. Here are the Texas legends that still don’t have a tidy ending. The…
You can explain almost anything if you try hard enough. A trick of the light. A tall tale that grew in the retelling. A hoax nobody ever owned up to. California has a whole collection of legends that shrug off every explanation and keep right on going. Here are the ones that sound made up,…
Buying a used car in Louisiana can be a total adventure… or a complete disaster. One minute it seems like you’ve found the perfect ride, and the next you’re Googling “how to fix weird smoke coming from engine” in a grocery store parking lot. The truth is, some used cars are solid deals, but others…
If you ever drank Tang on a hot Kentucky summer day or stuck to a plastic-covered couch in your grandma’s living room, you probably grew up in the 1970s. It was a colorful, quirky time when kids played outside until the streetlights came on, and nobody ever heard the word “Wi-Fi.” While a lot has…
