While doing a study in a Yoruba farming community in 1988 and 1991, it was observed that an average farmer spent about 4 days on the farm weekly: typically going to the farms between Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and returning to town by Saturday evening. Since these farmers typically spent most of their week on the farm, one would have expected them to make themselves more comfortable on the farm where they spent most of their lives. They did not. Rather, they lived poor on the farm and lived large in town. In this paper, we describe the dual residence pattern and draw out its socioeconomic implications. We also raise questions about whether this dual residence pattern and a strong sense of where home is (irrespective of duration of stay in current location) have wider implications for the way Yoruba people live when they migrate to other towns/ cities and countries. We suggest that the Yoruba concept of home is not the typical ‘de jure” residence (or place of usual residence), and it may not be the “de facto” residence (place of current residence) as the demographic literature suggests. We suggest that the strong concept of home-work divide in this Yoruba community affects the behavior of emigrants from the town living and working in other cities. There are many people from the place of this study who live in rented apartments where they work while building mansions at a remote location they call ‘home’ (where they may never live). The paper concludes by summing up wider implications of the findings for business, urbanization patterns, and migrant remittances among the Yoruba and offers recommendations for improvement.