"If you lived here you'd be home by now" - where did this quote originate from?

Question

Read this somewhere or other, but was just wondering where this quote comes from, if that makes sense.. and what do people think it means?

Answer 1

It is an advertising line usually used by developers of apartment or condo projects in or near downtown to convince them that if they lived there, rather than in the suburbs, they could avoid the commute home from their jobs.

Answer 2

i suspect it was first used by a realtor trying to convince commuters to buy his property which is closer to where they work

Answer 3

its a show in fox also a quot in a story calle uncle toms cabin

Answer 4

It was a slogan for an apartment complex in the Boston, Missouri area.  Those words were put on a billboard that was supposed to be seen and appeal to people who were stuck in traffic jams on their way home from work.