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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]5:55 who thinks it is totally o vious to automatically take your shoes off and even rude if you do not - where did you grow up? Not a snarky question. I am the earlier PP who said it is up to hosts to offer for you to take them off. Although if it a friend who I know keeps shoes off then of course I will automatically do it. Admittedly in this area I do try to remember to ask more often and in my house we try to leave them off but are not super religious about it. But in the OA suburbs where my family is from it would have been really unusual to take them off unless they were specifically muddy/snowy. I wonder if some of the posters who think this is so super obvious come from other countries or else maybe more urban areas. I will concede that no shoes is practically the norm in this area but I think that is far from universal in the US and of course DC area attracts people from all over the country. [/quote]

Just to be clear, I never said to automatically take your shoes off. I said it is polite to ASK. I grew up in both Canada and the US, but my parents were born in Europe and my grandparents were born in other European countries as well. I currently live in a large city and there are plenty of trees that drop sticky sap or fruits/berries on the ground so walking on the sidewalks can be pretty nasty. My current house is pretty "shoes on" because we have mostly hardwood and stone tile floors, other than my bedroom and the home office next to it which have carpet (both are downstairs).[/quote]

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