I’m Canadian and I never use ice at home. I used to put ice in my drink as a kid, but as I got older I realised that (a) I don’t like drinks that get waterier over time, (b) I’m usually too impatient to wait for ice to cool down a room temperature drink, and © it’s easy to get used to room temperature beverages. At one point I used to order drinks with no ice at fast food restaurants, but now I’ve mostly given up restaurant soft drinks altogether (if I’m thirsty, I get a glass of water instead).
Never in my experience. Unless the freezer needs to be cleaned or something.
Not American. I want to say that once a year I get asked if we have any ice cubes in the freezer, and the answer is always no, but I feel like that’s an exaggeration and it’s not even that often.
Personally, I drink hot drinks (tea, coffee) way more than cold drinks, and I prefer sodas at room temperature anyway. That’s my own quirk, not something endemic to my country 
I can take it or leave it. Midwestern American. I have trays and a bin in the freezer, and use them in the summer for iced tea. That’s about it. I have to remember to make fresh ice when Mom comes to visit. Even the cold water from a pitcher in the fridge isn’t cold enough for her. She seriously can’t even drink plain water unless it’s got ice in it. Like, hand her two glasses of the same water from the same pitcher, ice in it she’s fine, no ice and she gags. She’s fekkin weird.
I’m not crazy about ice. Growing up, my brother was really in to chewing on ice but he never re-filled so we never seemed to have ice.
I wasn’t going to hook up my ice machine when I finally purchased a new fridge, but I was afraid to not hook it up and have it come on without a water supply, so I had it hooked up.
Now I use a lot more ice than before! I put it in my water in the summer. Instead of re-filling the dog’s outdoor dish throughout the day I will put fresh water in in the morning and then a cup of ice every time they go out.
My ice maker works SO FAST too. It’s never empty.
Yes probably as dirty as fuck, too.
Oh and now there’s always ice at my parents’ house. Since my dad is retired, he finally has time to keep up with it (they still have to use trays). Very strange.
Personally, I don’t use it. I drink soda straight from the bottle, or from the dispenser, no ice. I don’t have ice trays in my freezer. (I don’t have frozen food either. The only thing in my freezer are two “blue ice” blocks for medical purposes.)
European here. No ice, unless the summer temperature gets above 25 degrees, which is rarely. I drink tea all day, kid drinks water, milk or generic coolaid. Husband water. All with cool tap water.
I hardly ever use ice. Perhaps once or twice on the hottest summer days when the tap water is getting a bit tepid.
American here, in the hot part (see location). Love ice in my drinks; Ice maker in main freezer, ice trays and blocks in the secondary freezer, and small ice tray in the beer fridge outside.
We spend a lot of time out on the boat, and need a steady supply for the coolers.
(Pic link included in case “cooler” means something different outside the US. Not trying to be pedantic.)
I usually don’t use ice. As far as I’m concerned, if a drink is cold already, it doesn’t need ice, and ice will just water it down. I do use ice in mixed drinks, like whenever I have a scotch ad soda or gin and tonic at home. That’s pretty much the only use our ice tray in the fridge gets.
Newbies to Thailand are often shocked at seeing ice put in an ice-cold glass of beer. That is a very Thai style. I never ask for ice in my beer, but I don’t mind if it comes with it.
I’m not sure I understand the comments about ice from ice makers being unsanitary - and I’m not being snarky here. The ice making part in our freezer is pretty much self-contained, and the crescents are dispensed thru the door. I’ve never noticed an odor or particulate matter in the ice, and believe me, I generally notice that sort of thing.
Do I have an exceptional ice maker, or am I that oblivious??
Not that I’ll quit using it. I’m pretty sure my husband would leave me if I removed the ice supply. 
Interesting, the ratio does seem to be more in favour of ice than not.
I personally hardly ever use ice in anything and if at a restaurant/bar I ask for no ice.
It might be to do with the fact that Scotland is generally quite cold; whereas abroad I’ll readily have ice in my soda when it’s warm outside and happily munch on the ice cubes (which may be bad manners?).
Thanks for the reminder! Canadian here, ice fan and our fridge ice maker is sufficient for the needs of my husband and myself but the long weekend approaches so for the next couple of days I’ll dump the mornings full ice bucket into a bag to ensure sufficient supplies for the long (hopefully) warm days on the patio.
I just prefer my drinks icy cold. I also have these gel filled coolers that I keep in the fridge that go around cans to keep them cold, and stone cubes for drinks that shouldn’t be watered down. I’m not a fan of room temperature.
I mostly just drink coffee and water. One is almost always hot and the other is generally room temperature. I don’t even have ice trays in my fridge. I really don’t mind drinking anything at room temperature (aside from milk, but milk is for cereal and coffee - not drinking).
I keep trays in my freezer so I can make mango smoothies on my whim or when company drops by! No ice maker, and never buy ice, and don’t use it in that many things as most of my beverages are already cold from being kept in the fridge.
The biggest consideration when buying our last fridge was not only the capacity of the icemaker but the type of ice it produced. I love to chew ice and the best ice to chew has to be aerated just right. I chose restaurants based on the type if ice they have. I’m at work at the moment and I’m fixin’ to go fill my giant mug with crushed ice and pour cold Coke over it.
American here - we also get our water from a well, about 175 feet down and the water is very cold all year around. We have a whole house filter and get our water tested every spring for safety. We also have a refrigerator with the ice maker and water/ice dispenser in the door. If I had the space, I would get the undercounter ice maker because we go through ice [especially in the summer] and still have a few ice trays to make specialty cubes [mojito cubes, ice tea and ice coffee cubes and so forth.]
American who’s lived most of his life in the warm-to-hot parts of the world …
I want my cold drinks cold, not “ice cold”. I drink about 2 quarts of water with my meals. For water in a restaurant, I want a few small cubes and that’s it; a glass full of ice with 2 tablespoons of water in the gaps is useless to me. But is, unfortunately, the default assumption at restaurants here in tropical Florida.
Beer & wine need no ice. Hard liquor is taken neat or over a single cube. I don’t drink iced tea, iced coffee, or soda.
At home I have a water chiller which dispenses cold filtered water which I also drink neat. That’s it for me. Overall I probably consume barely a handful of ice per week.
My wife takes a few (more) cubes in her water or occasional iced tea. Otherwise she’s the same as me. So probably 3 handfuls per week for her.
The icemaker in our fridge gets almost zero use.
I don’t put ice in my drinks at home; that’s what a fridge is for. I always ask for “no ice” in a restaurant, and I don’t add ice when it’s serve-yourself. Like someone else said, I don’t want to pay for mostly frozen water, and I haven’t had a warm drink yet (unless it was supposed to be hot).
I have a couple of full ice trays in the freezer, but I haven’t taken any cubes out of them for years. So far, all the guests in my home have found their drinks sufficiently cold from the fridge, or at least they didn’t ask/complain.
I’m a Chicagoan, where we get some pretty damn hot weather between our winters.
Remember, some parts of America made an international industry out of ice, back in the 19th century.