Owning a home is the goal for many, but sometimes, it's smarter financially to rent. Plus, without being tied down by a mortgage, renters have the flexibility to decide where to live every 12 months. Apartment search website RentCafe analyzed 149 metropolitan areas with at least 300,000 residents to make that decision easier. The site factored in 17 metrics across three key categories - location and community, quality of life, and socioeconomics - to rank which metros were the most livable.
The U.S. median home sale price reached a new all-time high of $446,000 in June. Overall, prices in 2025 remained above last year's then-record levels, with every month surpassing the corresponding median sale price from 2024. When averaging for the entire year, 2025's median sale price was 1.7% higher than 2024-around $7,400. Affordability remained a major issue for buyers and sellers, especially as tariffs, inflation, and elevated mortgage rates the economy.
The worst places in the UK for litter-riden roads have been revealed in a new report by the AA. Experts at the motoring firm surveyed more than 11,000 drivers in the UK about how much rubbish they'd seen on roads and surrounding areas. Over half (55 per cent) said they'd noticed more than usual - while just six per cent said they had seen seen less. Sadly, the figure is up three per cent from May 2024 when 52 per cent of drivers said they regularly saw rubbish on UK streets.
As we descend towards slop-based social media, where the videos are fake and the people are bots, we might be rounding up our time with algorithmically generated feeds. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows time spent on social media over the past decade. The key signal seems to be in young people's usage. It looks like usage plateaued for 16- to 24-year-olds and has been inching its way down. Although usage over two and a half hours per day is still a lot. Also when
