I bought these to use as my around the house shoes, I wear separate shoes to exercise. They got very light wear more than half a day approximately 4-5 days a week for about six months. The Nikes they replaced (I was giving NB a try) lasted almost two years, and more than a year the pair before those.

I bought the wide "D" width, which was -narrower- than the Nike regular width. I ordered size 10, I wear a Nike 9.5. These had less toe room even than the half-size smaller Nikes.

I use Dr. Scholls active series insoles, and have for almost a decade. For the first time ever, these shoes created a low squeaking noise from where the heel cup of the insoles rub against the insides of both shoes - that began shortly after starting to wear them and continued until the hole appeared in the toe.

The fabric inside the heels completely disintegrated about six weeks ago (after approximately 3 months of wearing them 2-4 times per week for about 6-10 hours at a time), which I repaired by stitching in moleskin to completely cover the back half of the inside of the shoe to protect the inner foam layer. Nikes never have had that issue for me, not since I started using them for the same purposes about 20 years ago.

The final straw was that the seam connecting the thinner material to the toe of the shoe has given way and now one shoe has a hole in the upper section above and between my middle and big toe.

My trial of the New Balance brand == epic fail. I'll stick with Nike, Merrill, Ecco, Dansko, and Keen shoes from here out.

I paid full price for a pair of these shoes in the size I wear with other brands, and returned them because they were too small. I paid full price again for the next half size up, and those are what I wrote this review for. If you found this review helpful, please indicate that below. Thank you.