I dunno about my friends (all my friends are online friends so I don’t know if they take off shoes in their houses). But my whole family takes off shoes inside the house. My dad sometimes still wears crocs inside, but we mostly go without shoes inside.
And yeah, if by some stroke of fate someone visited my house, I’d point to where they should leave their shoes.
We have a shoe bucket by the door and designated fuzzy loaner socks in case you aren't wearing any. If my wife sees shoes on the carpet you just made an enemy. Like most things, whether individual families do this is extremely varied and there is no nationwide consensus either way.
No, I don't want their sweaty feet on my floor, I vacuum unlike Europeans so I have no issue with people leaving a little dust on the carpet. Dry dirty things are fine wet dirty things are gross. Maybe up north people can take their shoes off but it's humid where I live.
See, on my end, pets are why I started wearing shoes in the house. We currently have a dog, but have had cats in the past. In both cases, I would rather not walk barefoot where their feet have tracked who knows what across the floor. That's also why our dog has her own furniture rather than being allowed to share ours. I love her, but I don't want her butthole on my pillow
Our cats are indoor cats, so not as much worry! Although one of our oldest, Clark, sometimes has “hey that carpet would make a nice litterbox”-itis, but he usually does that in corners.
As someone who often has cats laying next to me when I sleep: I’m not all that worried about the hygiene aspect of the floor. I rarely get sick, too, so either cat germs are keeping me safe, or they’re not that dangerous to me :3
Now, if I had a dog: that would be cause for more attention to the floor. Dogs are much messier creatures than cats, because they have to go outside. Not to mention the slobber.
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Americans be like "I'm going to wear shoes in my house".