Area code poll

[Captain Catnip]

It matches the next county over, where I've never lived, but it's my parents area code because it's all wacky. They live in a township, address is town #1, live closest to town #2, and have a phone number from a town even farther away. Because of where they live/I grew up I have that area code.

[AndyCohen]

Kind of. It's a NYC area code but there are five of those.

[WOT?*]

Mine matches our home. DH's matches where he works.
Our old cell numbers were each one digit off from current/local ones so after misdialing a 3 instead of a 6 when calling the ex, or a 9 instead of a 6 for my old job or DH's cell, or people dialing the "local" instead of the correct area code I gave up and switched.

[estrellita]

Nope. It was my original area code but they changed the home phone before we got our cell phones. Then I moved for school and stayed in the area. I'm pretty sure I'm one of few with this area code around here!

[nomad100]

Nope. Mine is from another state. I didn't want to give up my number since I have had it since the late 90s. :-O

[notsopicky]

I have a DC area code. I live in VA. I will NEVER change my #, b/c I love it--it reminds me of a really fun time in my life, and I've had it for almost 20 years.

[wittyusername]

Yes, because my entire state has the same area code.

[jln]

Nope. I live in Houston and have a Portland area code. And they can pry my Portland area code from my cold dead hands.

[bronxgirl]

Yes, although my city has an area code just for (or primarily for) cell phones, so that's the one I have.

[lightbulbsun]

Nope. I have had my 215 cell number for 15 years, and I will never give it up.

[arehopsveggies]

I just moved back to my hometown, so it matches now. But it didn't for most of the last decade

[JLV]

Yes.

[sushi]

Fuck no.

For 1, I move too often, so I keep the # from when I got last back in the US. No one wants to update as often as I move

Secondly, my current number apparently spells a naughty word. I found this out from a random text (I'm assuming from a 12 year old boy). I'm not changing that!

Essentially my # says aloha mother fuckers

[thejackpot]

Nope. In Md but my cell is D.C. Close enough.

[pixy0stix]

I now have all your numbers.




My hypothesis was that the poll would be about evenly split and I was right. We have a couple of new guys at work that when they call in their numbers are out of state, so I made the poll. With cell phones, it's just so much easier to keep your number than to change it when you move.

[pumpkin]

Yes

[sarahsays]

Nope. I've had the same number since high school and I now live 800 miles away from where I grew up.

[WanderingWinoZ]

i live in an area with 4+ area codes just ofr the Houston/Harris county area. My cell phone is the original Houston area code, but my office phone (in the county) is different. I think everybody just gets assigned random numbers now from the Houston prefixes

[bugandbibs]

Nope.

I live about 10 miles away in another state now. Many years ago my hometown created a separate area code for cell phones, but I got my phone before that. I will never change it to my new town unless I have to.

[brooklyn]

Yes. Keeping my 917 # foreverrrr

[hopecounts]

Yes.
I was on my parents so when DH and I got our own plan I switched.
It was before you could transfer a number easily so it was just simpler to change

[Beagle]

No, I currently live in another state and have for 15 years. My cell phone number is my last vestige of my Jersey upbringing and I'm not giving it up. #609forever.

[dancelnow]

Nope. Got my number in college a state away

[wambam]

No. I've had the same cell phone number for 15 years so I don't want to change it.

[Deleted]

415 baby!

(Sorry, brings me back to the area code 510/925/415 drama back in the day).

[flatlan]

Yes. And it's the original cell phone number that I got back in 1999.

[sushi]

May 31, 2017 12:27:13 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I now have all your numbers.

As memorable as my # is, and I know you've had and used it, I'll still believe you no longer have it. 

Or maybe I'm projecting because I don't keep anyone's # for more than a day. I'm a terrible stalker.

[CurlyQ284]

No. I changed it when I moved away for job hunting. Had to move back during the recession and they couldn't give me the same area code, I had to get the NEW code, like Elaine on Seinfeld.

We moved again but I'm not changing ever after that. I was too annoyed.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Nope. And yep.

My personal cell is from my hometown in Ohio. I've had this number since the 90s.

My work cell (which I also pay for) is local.

[rbp]

Yes because I got the first cell phone that I paid for by myself when I was in grad school, and we've been in Atlanta ever since.