Yes. I’ve had it since I got a cell phone 20+ years ago. They’ve added a bunch of area codes over my life and I’m proud to have the OG Philly area code.
I'm old-school, so I have a landline that is local (NY) and my cell phone is still a Colorado number. I moved from CO six years ago, but I'll be damned if I have to try to memorize another phone number when it took me forever to memorize this one!
805, like the beer. My area code makes me think of where I want to live vs. where I actually live.
For about 7 years, I kept my personal phone in a drawer and used my work phone for everything in order to avoid carrying two phones (which was fine with the company), and when I switched jobs, I had to get everyone used to the new number. PITA that is so not worth doing if you can avoid it.
Also spam and determining if I need to answer is great, like prior posters pointed out. If it's my local area code, it's almost either work or school related. If it's from my area code, the IRS has a warrant for my arrest.
When I first moved, my local region had 7-digit dialing (no area code required), and I found I had to slow people down first, because they'd think my cell's area code was the first 3 digits of a local number. Then I'd have to explain that it isn't a local cell number and why.
About 2 years after I moved, they changed to 10-digit dialing and I find I have to explain things a whole lot less.
No. For the longest time I had a 716 number and when I started working in Brooklyn & Queens, they kept trying to call me at 718.
After that I switched to a number local to my practice since we give out my cell number to all active patients. Anytime I see a number local to my house, it's either the school/daycare calling or a doctor's office.
Mine is no longer local since we moved a year and a half ago. I probably should change mine as I'm a real estate broker and it would be better to have a local number. It seems like so much work though.
Yes, because I moved from Canada to Brazil and got a new phone number here.
We are moving to a different state in December and I'm not sure if I'll change it. Apparently, it's more expensive here to have a non local number, so if it is, I'll change it.
Nope. And honestly I kind of prefer it this way since the vast majority of spam comes from my phone’s area code and not where I live.
With the kids I have found myself picking up unknown local numbers since the majority of the time it’s actually related to them and not just spam.
This 100%. Both H and I have out of state numbers (different states), and the majority of the time any local numbers that call are actually legit. We get so many spam calls from the other states.
Plus I have the same number as I did when I got my first cellphone at 16 (I've lived in 3 different states since then) and I see absolutely no reason to go through the hassle to change it 🤷♀️
Nope. It’s from my state but not my current area. I have transferred my number from phone to phone since I got my first cell phone my senior year of high school. So I have lived in multiple different area codes since then.
When I was a teacher I could make phone calls from my classroom but only could call local numbers. If I wanted to dial a long distance number I had to go to the office, which meant I had to wait for a long break and when the office was not busy. This experience made me want to have a local number so that my own kids could call me anytime and anywhere.
This is what I was going to add! It isn’t usually inconvenient, but some places still can’t call “long distance” and until this year, my classroom phone was included in that!
No, I didn't bother when I moved from GA. I switched it to GA from FL when I moved in 2004 back then job hunting was easier with a local number. I did get a google voice with a local number just in case. The only issue I have is my area doesn't use area codes for local calling, so if I give my number to a local I always have to start with "area code", it seems to confuse some people, and some local business must have ancient tech because they couldn't figure out had to add the area code. It's definitely a plus for kids stuff, almost all current area code calls are someone I want or need to talk to.
We lived in NY for a while but when we moved back to the Midwest (a couple of years later after moving back), we decided to change our numbers to local numbers. We have since moved to the suburbs but it is mostly still local to us.
I've had the same phone number for 13+ years. I am not changing. It is from another area code in my state. My iPhone now blocks any number not in my phonebook but before that, I knew all the calls from my former area code were spams.
Long distance calls sound so antiquated! I didn't know it was still a thing.
I've had the same phone number for 13+ years. I am not changing. It is from another area code in my state. My iPhone now blocks any number not in my phonebook but before that, I knew all the calls from my former area code were spams.
Long distance calls sound so antiquated! I didn't know it was still a thing.
How does this work if someone needs to reach you like a doctor or other business like that?
I've had the same phone number for 13+ years. I am not changing. It is from another area code in my state. My iPhone now blocks any number not in my phonebook but before that, I knew all the calls from my former area code were spams.
Long distance calls sound so antiquated! I didn't know it was still a thing.
How does this work if someone needs to reach you like a doctor or other business like that?
Yes. I’ve had it since I got a cell phone 20+ years ago. They’ve added a bunch of area codes over my life and I’m proud to have the OG Philly area code.
Same, well except I don't live local to the area. Both my and my BF have 215 numbers and we'll never give them up (live in NYC, neither of us have lived in PA since graduating high school in 2004).
Post by game blouses on Jul 8, 2021 11:36:22 GMT -5
I live in a town with a lot of transplants (people who didn't grow up here) so most of us have area codes from different places. I've had the same number since I got my first cell phone 20 years ago, and it's the one my kids have memorized, so there's no real reason to change it.
Mine, DH and DS2's are all local. DS1's is not for some reason (and it is very not local....the entire UP is 906 so it isn't the next town over or anything. I think it's many states away??) When we got him his first phone ATT said they couldn't get him a local area code at the time of setting it up but we could have it changed within a week if we wanted. In that week all of his friends had his number and he did not want a new one so we said whatever. No intent on changing it and when he leaves our plan when he graduates from college I'm sure he will keep it.
It really pisses of my ex-MIL though. She only has a land line and it is long distance to call him. That feels so weird in this day and age but she will call me and ask me to tell him to call her. Lol...whatever, she's a good grandmother so I just shrug and text him.
I've had the same number since I was 16, but I'm only 45 min away from where I grew up now so it's still the same area code.
We had friend who moved from this area (Central PA), to Pittsburgh for awhile, then Harrisburg, and changed their number each time and I was thinking why would you bother doing that.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Mine, DH and DS2's are all local. DS1's is not for some reason (and it is very not local....the entire UP is 906 so it isn't the next town over or anything. I think it's many states away??) When we got him his first phone ATT said they couldn't get him a local area code at the time of setting it up but we could have it changed within a week if we wanted. In that week all of his friends had his number and he did not want a new one so we said whatever. No intent on changing it and when he leaves our plan when he graduates from college I'm sure he will keep it.
It really pisses of my ex-MIL though. She only has a land line and it is long distance to call him. That feels so weird in this day and age but she will call me and ask me to tell him to call her. Lol...whatever, she's a good grandmother so I just shrug and text him.
Slightly related and maybe interesting, my BFF took over her grandmother’s apartment and later switched the landline to her cell phone number. That number was so old that it was not originally completely numerical (ex: Murrey Hill 5-7799). You called the operator to place a call and spoke it to the operator. Then shorted to MU 5-7799. Then the the universal numbering system when into effect in the 1940’s, and the M and U got changed to it’s numerical equivalent on the key pad 645-7799. So, originally, all of the phone numbers actually reflected the neighborhood you were calling.
She has since moved-out of that apartment and that original phone number is still hers. And across the state. Times change.