No U.S. city has been named America’s most mannerly more often than Charleston, South Carolina. So what happens when a relative gets a fact dead wrong over rice and gravy, in the state that’s supposed to have manners down to a science? Here’s what the research shows, once your plates are full and your whole…
Only 63.6% of adults in Florida visited a dentist in the past year, a rate that ranks the state 40th in the country. But even people who get their teeth cleaned regularly often make dental mistakes. These are the things dentists wish Floridians would stop doing. Note: This is general information, not dental advice. Guidelines…
Texas covers 268,596 square miles, more land than many countries hold within their entire borders. Visitors hear that number and still expect the whole state to look and sound the same everywhere. It never does, and many Texans end up explaining why more often than they’d like. These are the things Texans are tired of…
North Carolina packs a mountain more than a mile high into the same state as over 300 miles of Atlantic beach. That kind of range breeds a particular kind of stubbornness. Ask a North Carolinian why they do something a certain way, and the answer arrives without a flicker of doubt. These are the habits…
Owning land in Pennsylvania doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want with it. The state hands zoning power to more than 2,500 individual townships, boroughs, and cities. Each one writes its own limits on what a homeowner can and can’t put up in their yard. These are the rules that determine what you can…
The worst time to shop at a Harris Teeter in Virginia is Saturday or Sunday afternoon, right when half the neighborhood decides to stock up at once. Weekday evenings run a close second, especially the after-work stretch between about 5 and 7 p.m. Timing changes almost everything about a Harris Teeter run. Virginia’s Harris Teeter…
Two drivers argue over who had the right-of-way at a Tampa intersection, and an adjuster ends up splitting the blame: 51% one way, 49% the other. One point away from an even split, and Florida law treats those two drivers completely differently. That gap opened wider in Florida in 2023, and many drivers still don’t…
South Carolina has seven Costco warehouses. For a lot of residents, that’s not exactly next door. A membership card gets a first-time shopper in the door, not a map of every quirk waiting past it. Here’s what first-time Costco shoppers in South Carolina say they wish they’d known before their first haul. Note: Membership fees…
Nothing in the Texas Penal Code says anything about dumpster diving. That’s the trap. Four state statutes and a variety of city ordinances can cause dumpster divers to find themselves on the wrong side of the law. These are some of the dumpster diving laws that could turn a free find into legal trouble. Note:…
In Indiana, a family that comes up short on rent doesn’t call a state agency. They walk into a township office and ask an elected trustee. Nobody in Indiana finds that strange. Try describing it to a friend in Arizona and watch their face. These are the everyday Indiana habits that stop being normal the…
