Boomer from Hamilton , Ontario, Canada, and growing up it was probably 70% shoes ON in my parts...lots of kids, in and out constantly. Obviously, snow and mud were exceptions. The 30% shoes OFF homes were the outliers...

It wasn't until my late teens that I started to notice a shift, personally and societally, to shoes OFF.

Nowadays, even if the host *insists* that I keep my shoes ON, it doesn't feel right, so I tend not to.

Where do slippers fall on this? I'm a shoes off person, but in the winter I've started wearing slippers inside.

Shoes stay at the door and showers are taken at night!

I feel like the US is very split on this.

Personally I have all hard floors and don't care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.

Yeah this shocked me coming to the Netherlands. Thing is, when everybody else is wearing shoes, you don't wanna walk around in socks or barefoot cuz the floor gets nasty. It's a vicious cycle

I don't know any non foreigners in the IS who keep their shoes on, with the exception of VERY rural areas.

Our house is not as clean as I want it, but, if we wore shoes in the house it would be way worse. We have a family member that lives next door and is constantly walking around our house with shoes and it drives me nuts. If they weren't so helpful I'd say something.

chanclas ftw

What the fuck does this mean??

Tell me you don't know anything about the US without telling me.