Being in other people's houses

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I just feel very weird and alien in other people's houses/apartments. I just can never feel comfortable in them. It's very rare that the house I live in gets visitors but when it does I don't interact with them much at all and after they've left I feel like they they were an intruder that's 'violated' the house.

I can relate. Well- I don't so much mind being in another home than staying there for an extended period of time. When I was younger I could never do sleepovers with anyone other than family. It is uncomfortable so I see where you're coming from.

It's (at the very least) Western culture to feel strange in someone else's home, since home is one of the most precious spaces to us. You're a guest, not an owner, of someone else's home.

I don't know about any other culture when it comes to that.

As for your own residence, I don't know anyone who does'nt get a little upset after things are moved around by guests. It's just one of the joys of hospitality. The rise of hotels since the 1940s has probably gotten rid of most of the obligations of hospitality, at least for those outside the immediate family, so now it's really just an inconvience.

It's the presence of someone else in my home and I can feel that presence or residual idea of them after they've gone. (Not in a psychic way! Lol)

I don't know if how I feel is the same as how the OP feels.

I really don't like having people in my place because I don't trust other people's hygiene (I require them to take off their shoes, but are their feet clean?; Are their clothes etc clean enough to sit on my furniture?) and because I feel my privacy is being seen/violated by them.

I feel uncomfortable in other people's place because I might be violating them in some way like they do me in my place and because I can't trust their hygiene (is this sofa clean enough?; was this coffee cup washed properly?). If they have a dog or something, it's even worse.

This is the same as i feel. I've had my in laws here and felt uncomfortable in my own home. We hardly get any visitors here since i am like this however my gf's mother is the type of person who doesn't seem to care about my discomfort and laid on the couch in a bra and boxers.
I was so perplexed by her behavior. Her family has the whole Anti-Social genetic running about (at least in full form in 2 members of the family) and i wasn't sure if the mom was trying to make me feel weird in my own home or what...

Our Neighbors down the road i am friends with and i will stop over their house to talk, yet i never stay that long.
If we have to go to my in laws for Holidays i usually get answer the minute we arrive and i pace and am so umcomfy. We don't end up
staying long during holidays either, usually to eat and a little talk for them, then we leave. I have to bring a laptop, book, or various items so i can isolate myself if need be.

yup, sounds like me too. i have a wife here but never other humans, they would seem so overwhelming, so out of place, gauche and crude.

I'm more comfortable in my friend's houses. For some of them, I can strut right in and yell out "I'm home!"

For others, it's "Can I leave? No? How about now? No, I'm not trying to be rude!"

I dislike the homes of other people if the house is dirty, smells odd or bad or like icky cooking, if they don't have soft furniture to sit on, etc. Or if they have hyper pets that I am not familiar with, I just want to run away. I don't like eating other people's cooking unless I know them really, really well and know how they prepare things and what we will be eating. I would rather understay my welcome than overstay.

Personally I can't stand the 'wooden' floors in people apartments. If its real wooden planks then ok but most of the time it's that cheap stuff like a cheap wooden carpet. Destroys any atmosphere in the room

Yeah. It's mostly a olfactory issue for me. People's homes always have a smell to them that I find offputting, if not disgusting. Apartments in apartment buildings are the worst. Public buildings and offices usually don't have this. Only residential homes. Airports can bother me for this reason, though. Especially if the city has a more humid climate. Seattle and San Francisco airports, for example, smell weird to me. It's part of the reason I dislike traveling.

It is all familiarity... or at least mostly familiarity.
Partly familiarity with the location itself, and partly familiarity with the person.

If I've been somewhere enough, I become more comfortable being there on subsequent occasions, typically proportional to my familiarity with the place, as you might expect.
I don't have that many friends... and only with two of them am I particularly familiar with their place of residence.
Then there is the other factor: the more relaxed and uninhibited I can be around a person, the more relaxed I'll be in their place of residence... with a possible dividing factor if they live with anyone else of lesser familiarity.

So far as I'm concerned, a person's home and belongings are an extension of themselves... the extended phenotype, basically. As such, how I behave around their stuff is much akin to how I'll behave around them... Since I'm on a non-touch basis with most folk, that necessitates a non-touch basis with their stuff... And funnily enough, even if I am on a touch basis with them, anything I come into contact with goes right back where I found it afterwards... for much the same reason that I wouldn't twist their arm off and try to reattach it to their head or something like that.
Unsurprisingly, people with a lesser regard for property in that sense tend to REALLY wind me up. Even if I let someone into my home, unless they're a VERY close friend, I tend to get morbidly horrified if they touch my stuff without my clearly giving permission.

I have a really hard time opening someone else's fridge or cupboards. Even if all I want is a drink of water.
I always feel like I'm intruding, even if I'm at a friends place or the home of a close relative.
I've recently come to realize this is because I'm not sure what is socially acceptable for me to touch, etc.
But I have recently made allowances in this behaviour for one of my friends, where we set a rule that I could go in the fridge or take a cup, and that made things so much easier!
She always wondered why I would never make my own drink.....

I can't wait until I get out of someone's place. It seems so intrusive to be in a house in which you don't belong. Even at my friends' places, it feels awkward. Bringing my own vittles and drinks helps, but it is still odd.

This is why people don't come into my home and I.don't go into others. Besides people around here always seems to be smokers and they smell so disgusting. Home is for me alone.

And to think some people wants to live together and share bed and stuff pretty crazy. No thank you.

Yes I feel the same unless I know them well. That would be 4 and 3 are my family.