Salem

So my girlfriend, roomate and I were having a discussion about shoe's in the house. We're in Canada, and all of us have always taken our shoes off when we go inside. Sure if I'm running in to grab something I've forgotten i'll leave my shoes on. Unless it's rainy and my shoes are obviously wet then I wont. But as a general rule I take my shoes off when I enter my house, or the house of anyone else.

However, on most movies, television series, ect, it seems that nobody takes off their shoes when they enter a house. So we got to thinking, who does, who doesn't?

I know it is a semi-American stereotype to say that "All Americans wear shoes in the house", but really, who wears their shoes in the house, and who doesn't, and why? And no, slippers doesn't count.