Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
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This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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I'm dubious how unpopular this opinion is, but it's still a great post!
Myself, I've been inside a lot of other people's houses. Lots of different footwear preferences, though I was largely exempt because I was there to do a job that requires stable and secure footing, and thus had to wear shoes.
You'd be amazed how many people just change shoes when coming in rather than taking them off. Not even to slippers, just a pair of house sneakers or whatever, for the exact reason you stated. They would generally prefer to stay in shoes until they could clean their feet from the rigors of the day.
Some would come home, change into house shoes, and have another pair for going back outside, and sometimes another pair for errands. The folks that were past retirement age still stayed in whatever habit they had before more often than not.
Hell, anyone that had a member of the household doing significant outdoors work, like construction, often had full on changing stations set up. One home, the son in law was foreman of a road crew. He'd come home, step out of his boots on a screened in porch, step into the mud room where he could then wash up a little and change clothes while sliding on comfy mocs to come inside the rest of the way, then go take an actual shower more at leisure, where he'd change into his lounging around clothes for the night.
I tend to go barefoot at home, but I don't work any more, so even when I go out in shoes, I'm not doing anything to get them sweaty. When I do, I tend to pull off the shoes and go to the bathroom in socks where I clean my feet.
I live in a warm place, everyone kicks off their shoes at the door in a pile that can range from orderly to new age art exhibit. Mostly barefoot inside.
The foot odor issue I've never noticed, maybe because it's so common people spend most of the day barefoot anyway