Thanks.
All three of us work. None of us have ever no showed/no called, so I’m pretty sure there would be some concern from our respective employers, if we just didn’t show up. I’m not sure anyone would come over and check on us for a day or two. Probably lack of Facebook posts on my part and lack of showing up for gaming online on my son’s part would be the main thing that would concern people.
My boss would call if I didn’t show up. My husband’s boss would call if he didn’t show up. My husband’s boss works across the hall from my husband’s mom, so I’m sure that if he didn’t show up and didn’t answer his phone, my mother-in-law would be up from her desk and on the way to the house immediately. So at the latest, we’d be discovered by noon the next business day.
The rent is paid, and I’m not sure if the neighbors would notice anything out of the ordinary. I’d guess it would be about a month and a half before the landlord came to check or before the electricity was cut off.
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Let’s see, it’s Wednesday. My brother comes over and visits our dad on Thursdays before I get home from work, so he’d probably find us dead tomorrow afternoon.
However, we just saw him Sunday, so if he skipped tomorrow’s visit, he’d probably get a call from my office by Friday afternoon since he’s one of my two emergency contacts, and people would be very worried that I no-showed, and didn’t respond to e-mails or texts or calls. However, they’d most likely be worried that something happened to Dad that’s keeping me too busy to respond because they’re well aware that I’m looking after him and he’s in very poor health.
Pretty sure i could sneak away with no one noticing.
Would probably be over a year before county tax assessor came to do anything
with the property due to non payment of taxes.
And utilities would simply shut stuff off and send me notices int he mail that i’d never read.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing i guess it the important question
If my wife were talking with friends, I could do a full Fred Sanford before expiring and she wouldn’t notice. When friends went home, she’d ask “Why didn’t he say something?”. Presuming it’s just us, she’d figure something was wrong if I didn’t come to bed before midnight.
The roomies will poke their heads in by dinner time if no one has heard from me. My daughter will notice if I don’t call her tonight, but wouldn’t think to do anything about it.
If all of us dies then which of their jobs would call first I have no idea. But one or the other of them would send a wellness check within a couple of days.
There have been times in my life though, single and living alone and between jobs, when it might have been the eviction process that finally clued somebody in. Throughout my 20’s and 30’s, I was often on business travel, and none of my friends or family were surprised if I didn’t return a call. Even the fish had an automatic feeder that could keep them comfortable for two weeks if I got caught out of town suddenly.
I’m not worried about how long it would take for anyone to notice, but how long they would care I died! 
So if something happened to you, it would have taken two weeks for your fish to summon help?
“What is it girl? What’s the matter?”
(bubbles rising to the surface)
“TruCelt fell down a well?”
I’m married, and share a bed with my husband, so arguably “in the morning”.
However, there’s a long-standing rule in our house, that if I’m asleep, you don’t wake me for anything less than a house fire or arterial bleeding, so… it might be late the following afternoon :D.
Or there’s a small chance that my husband might notice that the CPAP machine had done its auto-shutoff thing.
Some years ago, my husband and son were out of town. That evening, I was watching TV downstairs and not feeling that great - a little queasy. I went upstairs, turned on the TV there, and didn’t feel much better, so I went into the bathroom (en suite) to see if I needed to send something south for the winter.
And as I was sitting there - not straining or anything, just sitting - the room started to gray out and I began to sway.
And the main thought going through my head was “oh hell, they’re going to come home tomorrow afternoon and find me dead on the bathroom floor”. (starkers, too, as I’d undressed before beginning my sit-down). Even if I’d merely fallen and been conscious… bedroom door was closed and the TV was on, so I couldn’t have called for my daughter to help.
Fortunately, for whatever reason, the near-faint stopped almost immediately - I was aware of swaying and the room going almost completely gray, and I think I moaned… then I was “fine”. Shaky and sweaty, and scared, but obviously I’m not dead yet…
Count me with the rest of the dopers who say “my spouse would find me right away.”
Back in grad school, in the more lonely/depressing times, I calculated that it would take a minimum of one week before anyone even noticed I wasn’t showing up and probably 10 or so before anyone did anything about it. The max I calculated was roughly 2 weeks.
ROFL! But truly, the OP said " . . . before someone realized you were missing . . . "
Fishie#1, Angel, would noticed if she clicked in the morning and I didn’t start to move about. She wakes me demanding food every day.
Yes, really. She’s a Clown Loach, aka water puppy.
During the week, for me and wife - 6 hours. Only because we sleep in the same bed. She works days, along with one son. Daughter and 2nd son both work evenings. Youngest son and I both work night shifts. If it were during the weekend when we were all home, it might be a week or two. Probably after my son missed his second weekly PO visit.
We had a guy die in the men’s room at North-West Sector Switching Centre at Colindale and nobody noticed until the following week.
My wife and I work for the same municipal institution, though not always on the same days. My son is with me every other week and he works part-time. My step-daughter doesn’t work but she has a boyfriend and friends in her social network. As soon as my wife and/or I didn’t show up for work there would 10 or 20 people wondering where we were and someone would come check on us before the day was out.