Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive

  • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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    20 hours ago

    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.