Removing shoes in British homes?

im british and my family and all my Friend's families take their shoes off inside so in my view you should only wear them if your doing building work or coming in for just a second

I think with the increasing popularity of laminate flooring (which is easier to clean than carpet), people aren't as bothered about you removing your shoes in the house.

I always take my shoes off in someone else's house anyway (unless they say not to bother).

As a general rule Britain is wetter/muddier, and more people walk greater distances than America, so it's understandable if being requested to remove your shoes is/was more common.

I'm American and we don't wear shoes in our house, and I know a lot of people that don't either. I do get upset when sometimes I'm asked to take off my shoes in a house where I know that some family members do wear their shoes. I don't want to get all that nasty crap on my socks then have to put my foot back into my clean shoes.

I have not experienced it.. but it's definitely a ''must do'' here in Canada when you visit a neighbour.. you are supposed to take your shoes off.. well right now it's understandable because we are having a lot of snow.. but in Canada it's supposed to be good manners and they tell you as soon as you are in the hallway to please take off your shoes.. so if you come to Canada.. make sure you have no smelly feet and that your socks got no holes.. LOL.. I had to learn as I came to live here from Europe where it's not a custom except of course in winter one removes boots...

frequently this purely applies to youngsters, and we don't have a collection of 'indoor shoes' like japan. that's purely there so human beings do no longer grimy the abode. I haven't any situation with removing my shoes, and that i think of the guy above me who does is an fool, considering that, you recognize, that's THEIR abode, yet regardless of. in spite of everything, no, i do no longer think of it is going to. Japan has different motives including a hangover of non secular ideals that motivate that practice, as nicely by way of fact the reality that the papery-type flooring they have there are rather impossible to bathe. right here that's distinctive - that's merely by way of fact of ways muddy carpets get, and because maximum persons do no longer choose the hassle of cleansing them. i think you're able to desire to declare that's a similarity, yet basic that's not probable the comparable. yet i'm getting your element. Do they do away with shoes at your house of abode?

I think it proper to remove your shoes when entering a home.

You don't know what is on the bottom of them, something such as a small stone could scratch a wood floor, or mud and doggie stuff.

I'm American.

If a person of East Asian descent asks me to take my shoes off in his or her home, I'm fine with that... that's their culture and I respect it.

But in other people's home, I find it rude. (And it's increasingly common)

People say it's so shoes don't mess up their floors.... well maybe I don't want your floors to mess up my socks. How in the world am I supposed to know your floors aren't dirtier than my socks?

not sure my friend .

I guess we always think of people from england as being more possible then in the U.s.

but I think that's a misconception.

I hate taking my shoes off.