# When do you leave you house in the morning and when do you return? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387 "2015-11-12T18:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/21 "2015-11-12T19:28:25Z")
I generally leave at 8:00 am and get home at 5:15 pm. During the summer, I leave at 7:30 and get home at 5:00 ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/22 "2015-11-12T19:30:15Z")
I leave about 8:30 am. When I return depends a lot on the time of the year and how much work I want to do from home. Most often, I get home between 5 and 6 pm. Outside the tax season, it’s an early day. During the tax season, it’s a 2-hour break for dinner, then I’m putting in another 4 hours of work from the home office. I live a mile from my office, so the commute time is negligible. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/23 "2015-11-12T19:31:51Z")
I work from home, so not applicable, I guess? In my previous job I left home between 9:30-10:00 and got home between 6:00 and 6:30. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/24 "2015-11-12T19:34:20Z")
I leave at 8, usually home by 6. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/25 "2015-11-12T19:36:09Z")
Leave around 8 AM. Return depends on if I go to happy hour. If not, 5 PM if yes, 7 PM. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/26 "2015-11-12T19:38:11Z")
I work in Silicon Valley. I leave between 8 am and 8:15 am, and return between 6:30 and 7:00 pm depending on traffic and when I leave. I’ve got a flexible schedule, even more flexible as I near retirement and don’t give a crap. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/27 "2015-11-12T19:47:52Z")
Leave the house between 7am and 7:10am, return between 5:30pm and 5:40pm. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/28 "2015-11-12T20:27:12Z")
I leave about 7 and get home about 4:30 on a typical day. ---
**Author:** ![Richey84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Richey84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richey84)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/29 "2015-11-12T20:32:38Z")
I live in Los Angeles. Leave around 530AM, get to work around 6AM, leave work at 3PM, home by 330PM. I have the greatest commute in Southern California. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/30 "2015-11-12T20:32:53Z")
Typically, I leave the house at about 8:30 p.m. I tend to get home at about 6:00 a.m. Add a half hour to that if I want to stop at the supermarket on the way home. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/31 "2015-11-12T20:45:39Z")
Leave at 7.30am, home around 4.20pm ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/32 "2015-11-12T21:43:47Z")
I work from home so right about 5 PM I leave to walk the dogs, then go to the gym, and do whatever else and get home around 8 PM. Yeah, I’m gone just 3 hours a day ☹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/33 "2015-11-12T21:44:48Z")
Most days, I don’t leave my house. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/34 "2015-11-12T22:04:29Z")
I work in Silicon Valley and live just south of it. I leave home at 7:15 and return about 5:45. The recent burgeoning economy is responsible for adding about half an hour to my total commuting time each day, and in my having to select alternate back routes most days. Traffic’s getting unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/35 "2015-11-12T22:07:26Z")
I leave home in southeast Denver a few minutes after 6 AM, arrive at work south of Denver’s Tech Center at 6:30 AM. I leave work at 4 PM and arrive home at @4:30 PM. I have a compressed schedule allowing for every other Friday off. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/36 "2015-11-13T00:05:03Z")
It varies a lot. 🙂 Sometimes I leave the house on Monday and come home on Wednesday or Thursday. Or leave Friday and return Sunday or Monday. About the earliest I leave the house is 4:15am. About the latest I get home is 11:30 pm. Typically it takes an hour from leaving home to clocking in or clocking out to getting back home. As a concrete example the last time I went to work I left home on Sat morning at 6:45am and got home the next day on Sunday early afternoon at 12:25pm. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/37 "2015-11-13T00:19:55Z")
I’m in El Dorado, California. I live about 25 minutes from work. I leave here at 6:23 am and get home about 4:00 pm. If I leave here at 6:20, I encounter this one asshole who tailgates me in his large truck, so I leave at 6:23 instead. I never see him coming home, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/38 "2015-11-13T00:43:38Z")
I leave the house at 5:15am, return about 7pm. New England! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/39 "2015-11-13T00:50:03Z")
Chicago. I leave home at 7:00 am to walk to the train station. It’s 30-45 minutes from door to door home to work . I’m off work at 415 pm. I often have drinks and/or dinner with coworkers or friends after work. It’s the same 30-45 minute train commute back home. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387/40 "2015-11-13T00:57:41Z")
I live just a five minute drive from work, I’d walk if I went to work when it was light. But I must be there no later than 5:45 AM. If I have an ordinary day I’m home by 2:00PM. That’s assuming I have no errands to run on the way home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-leave-you-house-in-the-morning-and-when-do-you-return/737387.md?page=3)