Do you wear shoes inside?

[Honeycomb]

In Germany, we take our shoes off when we come home, and then wear slippers. However, when we have guests or are guests at someone else's home, we leave the shoes on, and we don't make guests take them off. It's very strange I think, maybe it is because people don't want to have extra slippers around. We would consider it very rude to ask our guests to take their shoes off.
In China, shoes come off at every household you enter, and you always get cozy slippers.

[xeevee]

I personally don't in my own house, because it stops the carpet getting crud all worked into it.  But if someone came to my house I would be fine if they left their shoes on.  If I was visiting someone I'd do whatever they do in their house.  Usually with the people I know, that's leave shoes on.

[Koudoawaia]

I don't when I'm at home but if I'm at someone else's house, yes.

[SnorkMaiden]

I take off my outdoor shoes when I come in and put on slippers instead (I don't like walking around without shoes altogether because my feet get cold). When I'm at a friend's place for the first time, I'll ask them whether they'd like me to take my shoes off.

[Sandi]

I thought about this and maybe it's partly a climate thing? In countries with a dry climate your shoes won't get very dirty. But in places where it rains/snows a lot your shoes will get dirty, muddy and wet.

[Harmonie]

I take them off the instant I get in my room. However, I don't think it's considered rude to take them off or leave them on. The exception is when I'm in someone else's home. I'll never take them off, unless I'm sleeping over... Then it seems appropriate. 

[Beldarna]

Only time I keep them on is if I've had to grab something real quick and be out again, but otherwise they're off as soon as I'm inside the door.

[Kanchii]

Everyone wears there shoes in the house that I've known. There were a few houses I've been to that ask you to take them off, which I of course do. But not too many.

[rearing_palomino164]

I used to never wear shoes when I was little. Around the farm and the house it was always barefeet. Going out of course I wore shoes. Around the house now, I never wear shoes, but will if going out. I like my feet to be able to breathe and have some air every now and again, haha! I do wear my house slippers when it's cold out. Tile and wood floors can get pretty chilly in the winter.

[kiwimlp]

I do - or I don't, depending on my mood and what exactly I have on my feet at the time. I have been known to traipse through the house in gumboots from time to time too. 

[Hervoyel]

I don't.

I'm Canadian but living in the US - in Canada the default is to take your shoes off when you visit someone's house, but here in the US it isn't, so it always throws me when people visit and don't automatically take off their own (I don't ask them to though, that feels like it would be insulting maybe? Or make us come off as fussy?).  And I've visited people here and had them specifically tell me to leave my shoes on, and that seems funny too (although if everyone else is tracking the outside dirt in, why not wear shoes, I suppose!).

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

I take them off as soon as I come in the front door, same for my friend's homes that have a similar request. Though if I'm going to be going inside/outside a lot and it's not wet/rainy I'll keep them on.

[tikibirds]

I'm in China so:
I get looks of horror when I leave my shoes on
I get the same look when I walk around the apt barefoot
while visiting, I get slippers that usually don't feet my fat feet

At home in NY:
barefoot at home
Leave shoes on while visiting friends

[Shileah]

I might be lost in translation here, but when you guys say "barefoot", do you actually mean with naked feet, or do (some of) you still wear socks?

[dragonfly]

no, not really. I feel odd wearing shoes in the house.

At work and other public indoor spaces of course I wear shoes. It would be strange not to. But I did once work with a woman who loved to take off her shoes and walk around barefoot.