UK and east Europe are you sure? Don’t think a place where rain is just the weather that makes sense

40% of the world weard shoes INSIDE??!

How could anyone feel more comfortable with shoes on than shoes off?

Midwest EU when visiting someone’s house.

X: you guys take your shoes off in the house?

Y: yeah but it’s ok, I’m cleaning later on anyway.

Or

Y: Yes please, I just cleaned.

This is bullshit every house I go to for all my friends in USA is shoes off…lol what?

UK is generally shoes off from everything I’ve seen but ok then

Slippers don’t count as shoes.

Yeah I converted to shoes off. It just keeps the floor cleaner and you’re more comfortable in the home

We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons

I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.

When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.

In my society people usually don’t get their shoes off at home. We did this thing of using specific shoes at home as a compromise. Works pretty well, it’s not that I wouldn’t like a shoes off policy, but it can get too cold to stand on uncarpeted floors.

I wish we were shoes off culture. I take my shoes off in my house but everyone else gets dog shit and chewing gum.

Mud room

Coming from shoes off culture I’m considering giving shoes on a shot. But I still don’t quite understand how it’s supposed to work. I assume you’re not that savage to get in beds in shoes, so are you supposed to keep them near the bed? And lace them every morning when you get up? Or use simpler footwear that doesn’t require lacing like crocs or something? Isn’t that then technically wearing slippers outside rather than wearing shoes inside?

It fascinates me that people care this much.

Shoes off on carpet.

I have a friend who is shoes off. I respect his wishes at his home but I’d hate to live like that.