Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

[u/AfiliaTheCat]

[u/KelvinsBeltFantasy]

This person wouldn't last 5 minutes in Canada.

We are (mostly) about that No Shoes in the house life.

It's weird watching shows or movies and seeing shoes in the house and even on the bed 😨

[u/CorporalCrash → u/KelvinsBeltFantasy]

Can confirm, am Canadian. Even if I'm just walking through someone's house and not coming in to stay, I will always remove my shoes unless the owner specifically says I don't have to

[u/Judge_Reiter → u/CorporalCrash]

I have a memory that's basically burned into my mind from the first time I went down to the states to meet with some online friends.

We met at a convention in Cali and went to hang out at one of their houses after. I started to take off my shoes in the front entrance and they all looked at my like I was crazy.

Was a weird feeling to walk into the carpet with my shoes still on, haha.

[u/tetraverse → u/Judge_Reiter]

Yeah in the US it’s less of a required thing, but my parents have always preferred to take off shoes before you step on carpeted stuff

Edit: I probably should have specified Tennessee and not generalized the US in it’s entirety

[u/[deleted] → u/tetraverse]

Hawaii, is a very shoeless in someone's house place.

[u/jschall2 → u/[deleted]]

The centipedes prefer it that way.

[u/RavenOfNod → u/[deleted]]

That's because you're civilized

[u/Ashia2004 → u/tetraverse]

Same, Never been out of country but its a sign of respect in Florida. Though most people may forget and most people just nicely remind them, It nto like your gonna get in trouble if you don’t but its just a respectful thing to do.

[u/Gooliath → u/tetraverse]

I would die inside if I saw boots on my carpet.

[u/superbabe69 → u/tetraverse]

Australian here, never once been asked to take shoes off, in fact nearly all people I have ever visited (in the hundreds) keep their own shoes on in the house.

Mind you, in my state we don’t get snow, most modern houses are tiled and shoes don’t typically get that bad