In an American forum I have just posted this:

If you are paying a visit, how do you go about it?

a) I put on clean shoes, go a few steps to my car, drive there, park the car, go a view steps to my friends' house, and enter the house with clean shoes.
b) I walk for miles and miles through dust and dirt and and swamps and dirt and dust - and then enter the house with terribly dirty shoes.



From most of the comments in this thread it looks like that version b) is the usual version in the US.
Has the US become a Third World country by now?

There is the poll in the German section:

>>>> Schuhe ausziehen in anderen Wohnungen?

2 out of 2 say: NO!

3 out of 3 say: usually: no

Zitat

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What surprises me:

Americans seem to have terribly dirty shoes most the time.
Are there no paved streets?
Must the poor Americans walk on dirty dirt tracks most of the time?
So that their shoes are terrible dirty most of the time?

Here in Europe our shoes are usually clean when we pay a visit.

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This posting I have written thre just now:

https://debatepolitics.com/threads/shoul...post-1072748546


And I really mean it!

There is a lively discussion about it there: https://debatepolitics.com/threads/shoul...s-homes.422220/

3 out of 3 say: usually: no

3 out of 4 say: usually: no