Having grown up a savage in India, I was, much like all Indians, bestowed with the wisdom of removing all footwear outside the house. Maybe taking a shit daily in the streets helped me a great deal to know where the street ends and a home starts. Interestingly, even those living BPL who live in a hut without proper flooring can tell the difference and remove their footwear outside the hut
So it makesme wonder, whats the difference between those savage-yanks-sleeping-with-their-shoes-on-in-their-beds and you? And how do I tell my friends and roommates that they cant wear their ultra hygienic shoes in the kitchen or living room after trampling across crushed dreams, desires and drugs belonging to the people of Berlin
by Folkstrot
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Step inside my house with shoes on more then 3 min and see how my eastblock heart overturns my noble german passive aggression into active aggresion real Quick.
In France, it is more of a personal choice ; meaning you can never know and it’s a nice occasion to argue with your friends as are many things in life.
Taking your shoes off in someone’s home feels weirdly intimate to me, like I might as well just go straight to their kitchen and make myself some toast.
If you live in an apartment chances are your guests are expected to remove their shoes, if you live in a villa you’ll keep them on 100% of the time.
You’d think it’d be obvious to Barries since they have wall-to-wall carpets in **every** room.
I have lived in two colors here and don’t you dare wearing your shoes inside my or my parents home
That heavily depends, in rural areas it is common to take your shoes off.
My brother-in-law is german and I of course take my shoes off when we visit their home. I like it and I think it’s cozy, specially in winter. It makes sense since it rains quite often and the shoes get muddy. In Spain we have like, 60 days of rain per year. Still, I think it’s something we should adapt. I now have a pair of shoes only for the house, but I live in Mallorca so adapting german traditions is not that weird.
In my house I remove my shoes as soon as I enter, but I’m not going to ask guests to do so. They can wear their shoes and I will just wash the floors after, easy.
Asking people to be on their socks or using some dirty slippers sounds very savage. Just clean after, that’s it!
I’m not taking complains from people that barely take 3 showers a week.
There are times when I prefer that they continue with their shoes on because of the smell that emanates from their feet
These maps are always so wrong
Map showing how clean streets are
Honestly I just started doing it after I realised I fucking love walking barefoot around my house and how disgusting my shoes are. But it had to be a conscious choice.
I don’t ask guests to take off their shoes tho. Do civilized people have a lot of extra slippers for guests?
In a house: shoes on on the first floor, so like for the living rooms etc, but shoes off on the second floor where the bedrooms and bathroom are.
In an apartment: it depends but more often asked to take off your shoes.
But it’s not universal, these habits change from place to place, people to people and even sometimes generation to generation.
Why are we entertaining the opinions of savages lately here?
If you enter my house with shoes I ask you to remove them, if you refuse I ask you to remove yourself
I mop daily. Unless the visitor is someone close to me, i dont want them to suddenly take their shoes off, neither i want to see their toes picking from the whole in their shock.
[Average village](https://www.tasteiran.net/Files/meymand-cave-village-kerman-mp-49dec6.jpg) in the dark area, so why bother.
I grew in Sicily and no one took their shoes off when entering. Another reason is that every house has tiles, not parquet. So your feet would freeze walking on them, unless your guest provides you slippers. A friend of mine did that, and I just wondered how many filthy feet wore them before.
Correlate this with preferred floor materials now.
Who are these heathens who don’t remove their shoes?
Guest are given the option (although choosing to keep them on will get you some weird stares)
If you’re part of the household you most definitely take them off, and it’s not even optional to wear them for a few seconds cause you e.g. forgot your keys, cause Greek women have an integrated sensor that spots shoes in the house from three rooms away and turns them into bloodthirsty harpies
P.S. walking into a house with parquet floor with your shoes on gives the landlady the right to shoot you on sight as an act of self defence.
Barbarians
Everybody has to take their shoes off when entering my home… Except that one friend whose feet emit a horrible stench, he must keep them on.
Nobody ever takes their shoes off here, the expectation is for the visiting person to have clean shoes. Furthermore, houses are cleaned every week, I’m sure they do the same in the north?
or, to put it another way…
how likely is it that your shoes are covered in mud?
There is something called slippers i don’t know if you ever heard of it, guest removes their shoes, is offered a slipper to wear and you don’t have barefoot in the house
There’s a 100% chance it has rained here, you can’t walk into someone’s house in wet boots.
I grew up in Germany, so that’s probably cheating, but shoes stay at the entrance in our home and most people accept it (maybe except for older family members who’ll always “forget” when they visit us).
Our streets are clean. Simple as.
My family is portuguese but aint nobody wearing shoes inside the house. We have our indoor chinelos.
This is something you notice growing up as a Spaniard, that the rest of the world is super nazi about wearing shoes in the house and you had never thought about it before
Woman here.
All my shoes are bra’s for feet.
So yeah I take them off the moment I enter my house.
Jokes aside, I prefer shoes off from all my guests, but it’s up to them.
Just one rule, no stiletto’s on my wooden floor.
Anything not Blue on this map = Caveman Savages apparently!
Everything except blue is savage.
The first thing i ask when entering someone’s home is if they want me to take off my shoes.
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