Do you have flat feet?

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My feet are flat but they don't hurt at all. My back hurts when I stand for too long but that's because I have scoliosis.

Yeah.

They seem to get the job done.

My feet are super flat. I can even get suction with them on tile and concrete.
I don't really have much problem with pain or soreness. I tried to wear shoes with arches in them and after about 5 minutes my feet were killing me. Shoe shopping when I was young was a nightmare for my mom and me. All I knew was that most shoes hurt my feet so I didn't like them. I had to find ones that had almost no arch in them. Later I figured out that in many shoes you can just pull out the arch piece and wear the shoe fine.

haha! this happens to me too.

The complete opposite. My feet have very high arches. Terrible for getting shoes sometimes. And whilst they look very attractive to dance on, they are typically weaker than flatter feet. After a long time walking the tops of my feet can hurt because there is absolutely no support under them.

I have extremely flat feet. I visit a podiatrist every four weeks or so and will soon have specialist footwear.

Yup.

Lots of people on my mom's side of the family have (or had) flat feet. I have orthotic inserts for my shoes to correct my flat-footedness, and have been using them since I've been in middle school.

Yes, normally they do. But, if I wear shoes that have very soft insoles, or if I buy soft insoles for my shoes, my feet don't hurt when I'm standing for a long time.

No, I don't have flat feet (but my father does).
Yes, I have high arches-and have had foot pain since I was a teenager (half my lifetime ago). Arch support inserts (prescribed & shaped by podiatrist) never helped, only hurt & caused new problems. Hurts to stand for long at all, so I just don't (since I don't have to). Think my walking style is called pronation (as opposed to supination): the outside (non-arch side) edges of shoe soles, esp. the heel, wear out/down super fast, compared to the rest.

no, i have pretty normal arches - rather on the high end by todays standard, i guess.

i recently went shopping for running shoes and did a thorough analysis, like having my feet scanned, videos of me running etcetera...
at first, the lady in the shop didnt want to agree with me to get a shoe with low to almost no cushioning. after she saw me run forefoot naturally as long as i dont wear shoes, and the ensuing muscularity it produced, she agreed. now i dont have nada support shoes as i planned for, but found the reason she mentioned for getting low cushioning first a quite good one: first i need to get my feet accustomed to running longer distances, and a little cushioning can make the adaption easier. after that, she said that theres nothing to keep me from running without support.