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Originally Posted by ekbell
Aside from ground flour/1st floor and measurements without units, my main trip up was when I ran across a reference to someone who was surprised about being asked to remove their footwear when coming inside. There are people in the English speaking world who expect to wear outside shoes in a private dwelling place!
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This varies in the US. I think shoes-off houses are mostly in areas that get a lot of snow or mud. I don't know anyone in my area that has a no-shoes policy, though when we lived out in the country we did have a mudroom area to leave any especially dirty footwear.