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10 min read Animals

<p>Raccoons have been sharing our neighborhoods for long enough that most people have settled into a vague truce with them. You see one on the fence, it stares at you for a moment, you stare back, and eventually one of you moves on. They knock over the bins, they eat the cat food left on…</p>

11 min read Living

<p>When a city gets a low score on a national education list, the reaction is predictable. Local officials often question the report, while residents go online to defend their hometown. Soon after, the conversation dies down, and no one asks the harder questions: Why do the same cities always end up at the bottom, and…</p>

12 min read Lifestyle

<p>Picking a state to retire in sounds like a fun problem. You picture yourself with a coffee on the porch, flipping through real estate listings in places you’ve always half-dreamed about. Then reality starts loading. Property taxes, healthcare access, state income tax on your 401(k) withdrawals, hurricane insurance premiums, the distance from the grandkids –…</p>

10 min read Health

<p>If you had to guess which states are most stressful to live in, you’d probably think of New York or Los Angeles, somewhere with gridlock traffic and sky-high rent. The actual answer looks quite different. The states where residents report the highest stress levels tend to be quieter, slower, and largely out of the national…</p>