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[adiva_calandia]

[Poll #1040710]

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[alemara.livejournal.com]

New England, baby!

[bansidhe]

The west coast!
... We're not the same as 'southwestern US'. :}

[cupenny.livejournal.com]

Seconded! And California is really a whole world place of its own.

I'll also note, that normally I leave my shoes on- unless the people I'm visiting take theirs off. Then, I take them off. So- on that question, it rather depends.

[adiva_calandia]

Yeah, but I couldn't get that level of specificity. :(

It depends for me too -- I mean, over this trip, I've encountered a lot of different households with different rules -- but I'm interested in your default.

[agonistes]

I should note that I do take off my shoes in the houses of others when asked (and have before; my aunt and uncle in Tampa have us do that); default state, though, is to leave them on.

[deutscheami.livejournal.com]

Midwesterner with German shoe habits and firm views about the usage of soda, which possibly screws with your data a bit!

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I'm with Bansh :) Northwestern sounds like Pacific Northwest, which is like, Oregon and Washington. (I picked it because I imagine that if I divided the west coast in half . . . I'd be in the top half . . . probably . . . ) But southwestern just makes no sense. There's California, and then there's not California.

[kd7sov]

I see Southwestern as being possibly California, then Arizona and New Mexico (and, I belatedly realize, Utah, which means I answered that one wrongly.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

I should note, though, that growing up, we took shoes off in our own house (in PA) but a lot of my friends didn't do that, so that's what I marked.

Also, traveling across the country; in Western PA and Ohio it was Pop, and in Northern Minnesota, it was sometimes Pop, but usually Coke.

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

Caveat: I leave my shoes on for the most part, but take them off if I know that's how the household works, or if it's a place I'm comfortable enough to go shoe-less in my toe socks.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

For the second, I said 'leave them on' as this is most common, but it depends on the house - I usually just ask first.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

"Pop" is a word my Ohio cousins use that makes me want to icepick their eyeballs. It's soda. And thank the lords my dad and uncle do not say "pop" even though their sisters do.

I'll take off my shoes in someone else's house if I'm asked to, and that does happen fairly regularly. It's a common thing around here, but not common enough to be my default. I leave my shoes on mainly because the alternative is usually stepping on stuff that hurts.

Eastern US here.

[sluggirl.livejournal.com]

For some reason I never think of Alaska as "the Northwest," even though it's the northest and westest of them all. Because when I think of the Northwest, I think of the Pacific Northwest, which I guess Alaska is, too? Um, the coast, anyway. But really "Northwest" makes me think of like Washington-Oregon area. But I picked "Northwest" ANYWAY.

Um, there's no point to this comment. Except here people always look at me weird for taking off my shoes when I come inside.

[adiva_calandia]

I tried to put "Alaska" in there as a choice, but it wouldn't let me put any more. Silly poll creator.

[genarti]

I answered, and now will totally hedge all my answers in comments!

I wrote "soda," because that's what I say nowadays. But I had to learn to do so when we moved to Vermont from Ohio when I was in high school; crazy New Englanders, not understanding the simple ubiquitous term "pop"! I've since picked it up thoroughly, along with some other slang, although there are other terms I hold out on. (This is also why I said I was from the Midwest US, although saying I'm from the Eastern US would also not be untrue. I've lived here long enough, and emotionally settled in more than enough, to waffle between those.)

In my own house, I take my shoes off at the door and wander around in socks or (preferably) bare feet. In someone else's house, I follow their example, but my default is to leave shoes on unless they're doing otherwise.