Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive
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The Netherlands look red but it’s definitely a shoes on country. People find me weird for asking them to take off their shoes. Any idea how nasty the roads are? Any idea how easier it is to clean your floors when you don’t bring all the nastiness from outside under your shoes? Plus it’s much better not to wear shoes in general, for your feet. That’s why I wear barefoot shoes outside and nothing inside. Because outside is naaaasty. Otherwise I would be barefoot everywhere.
I’m Dutch speaking Belgian, so culturally similar I guess…
I generally don’t wear my shoes at home, and I don’t know anybody who does, but it is considered weird to ask guests who are not staying over to take their shoes off, and it would be considered weird to voluntarily take your own shoes off in someone else’s home. It is more a question of intimacy and is considered getting too familiar. So unless you’re really familiar with each other, or you’re staying over long term or something, guests keep their shoes on.
In practice, I take my shoes off when I’m at my parents’ home, or at my girlfriend’s place, everywhere else they stay on, even at friends’ places.
I think Netherlands is more mixed nowadays than a hard shoes on culture. Like people keep their shoes on if they have visitors over like a party and they don’t ask their visitors to take them off. But when they are home alone it’s shoes off or slippers. Like many people have underfloor heating so there is no need to keep the shoes on.
Though I know some freaks who don’t take off their shoes until they go to bed.
Looks green to me. But there is a lot of jpeg going on.
Sandals when I’m inside. On rare occasions I’ll wear socks and house shoes, but that’s usually when I’m cleaning floors or something wet.
Shoes off, eh.
This chart is a hate crime against colorblind people.
Shoes on the main floor are ok but not upstairs
I have shoes I wear specifically in the house I broke my ankle a couple years ago and ever since, walking without shoes has been uncomfortable and even painful. So I have inside shoes and outside shoes.
You get a pass. That’s a legit reason
In what backwards and uncultured shithole do you have shoes on in the house? That’s filthy.
I prefer shoes off, but I have dogs that track so much dirt and filth in so what’s the point 😭
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Shoes off inside the house is only really useful when one has shoes on, when outside.
Get your dogs some shoes.
See map
The map is wildly simplistic, as usual for these Internet takes lol.
In Portugal, for example (where I come from), I don’t know anyone that keeps their shoes in-doors 95% the time. If you’re doing some quick work or holding an event, people might be a bit more lack about taking off your shoes, but I (and many my friends) always make an effort to take some kind of home footware when visiting other people’s homes. As a general rule? Everyone puts some socks/sleepers/flipflops on.I am surprised to see some continental Europe here. I know it is different in Ireland and their floors look it.
Yeah I live in Czechia and never realized this was the case in France and Spain. I’m also surprised.
It’s not, the map is wrong.
The map is just wrong. How did they gather this data, it just what the map maker has decided is the case rather than objective reality.
If you come in my house and you’re wearing shoes you’re gonna get told to take them off. I don’t want dirt on my carpet.
I’m weirdly conflict conflicted, I mean we are on the map, but it is incorrect.
But most kiwis are shoes off in the house.
You’re too far away to get accurate data on.
Are Kiwis shoes off outside the house too, or is that just Aussies?
Be glad you’re on the map for once
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.
This. Shoes on was the default, not so anymore.
in the tropics you’d be lucky to find someone wearing shoes outside
Shoes off, you filthy animal
Hawaii?
I’m an American and you take your shoes off at the door, bub.
Map is just bullshit. Wrong for france
Living in Ohio (midwest U.S) its not entirely a yes or no and more of a “it depends”. Ive noticed older people assume shoes on but anyone under 40 will either ask or assume shoes off at the door. Theres also a layer of midwest nice to the whole exchange of not wanting to inconvenience the other person, so you get situations where a party will start with everyone wearing shoes, but end with everyone shoeless.
what kind of monster wears shoes in the house
Insanity! I go so far as pants, too—I have Outside Pants for leaving the house, and as soon as I get home, I swap into my comfy Inside PJs. I’m not sitting on my nice chairs or bed wearing dirty ass Outside Pants!
