No, I've had one cell phone number ever and it's based in my home state (thousands of miles away and I haven't lived there in 13 years). Never an issue though one time I had to call poison control and it routed me to the help line in my home state. The man was like, wait - where are you? All my spam calls are from that area code so it's easy to weed them out!
Mine is an area code in my state but not the one local to where I live. I wouldn't change my number if we moved out of state. I think it's a good thing for businesses to have a number that is local, but don't think it matters for personal numbers. My friend who moved from MA to CA changed her number after like 5 years in CA because she thought it was time for her number to match where she lived, but I didn't see the point.
I found something from High School and it had my parents landline # on it.. beginning with 508!
My favorite was when I got a call from a local Maryland number, asking about my political preferences. Once they started talking about caucuses, I was like - wait a minute, I'm not in Iowa anymore despite my Iowa phone number. Then we laughed because he was in Iowa, calling from a MD phone number, and I was in MD, answering on an Iowa number.
I changed mine 15-20 years ago, when I moved to the area for law school and was job hunting. At the time, a local number felt like it enhanced my ties to the area (I had none prior to starting law school here) favorably when looking for a job in the local market. I haven't moved, so the number is still local. If I were to move, I wouldn't change it again because the perception is different now.
Yes. I changed it after I'd lived here for 3 years or so.
I wish I'd never given up my first cell phone number, but at the time (2005ish) I was job hunting in a new place and wanted a local number. I kept that number for 6 or so years, through a few other cities. When we settled in a place we expected to live for a while, H and I switched to numbers local to that area. Long story but that didn't work out we were sort of bitter about it, but happy ending I love where we live now and was tired of explaining where my old number came from when it wasn't a great memory.
It is now, but for 10 years it was a Chicago area code, although I've never lived there. When DH and I moved back from China, we didn't know yet where we were going to settle (waiting to find out which, if any, doctoral program I would get into). While staying with our best friends, we got a phone. It was our primary phone and then became my phone. I finally got a smart phone about 4 years ago, with a114 new account and number.
Evidently the Chicago area code is fairly known, because I would regularly have people ask, "Oh, when did you live in Chicago?" And I would respond, "Never. My phone's just from there."
I’ve had this cell number for over 20 years. At some point we ran out of numbers and new cell phones in my county were given a different area code from everyone else. So mine is different from others in my hometown. I know live in the town next to my hometown in another state (10 minutes away, lol) and my number isn’t local anymore but it’s super common. Lots of people move back and forth over the river- most people would consider my number local even though it’s an out of state area code.
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Post by irishbride2 on Jul 8, 2021 21:56:19 GMT -5
yes BUT I ended up moving back (after a decade) to where I grew up.
H did not grow up here, but found it annoying to have a non-local area code so eventually switched. He kept both numbers for a year so people could transition.
My first cell number was NY. I kept a Verizon North America plan until fully immigrating to Canada, then switched to a Canadian carrier so it’s local to the city I’ve lived in for 11 years.
We moved from CA to FL 9+ years ago, and I still have my 805 area code. I've had the same number since some time in the 90s.
DH's number is local, but only because he had two phones, (work and personal), and when he went to one phone, he decided that his work number was the more important one to keep.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Jul 9, 2021 18:38:38 GMT -5
No. After college when dh was in med. school, I substitute taught for a year before getting a full-time job. The sub line at that point was by phone, and it required a local #, so I changed my number to local to that area, and I've never changed it since. So it wasn't my original number (and I've since moved back to my hometown so my original number would have been a local # now), but I've had it for almost 20 years now.
Like others have said, I like that calls from the same area code as my number can be identified right away as spam, and I pick up calls from the local area codes and they are usually not spam.
There was no such thing as a cell phone when I was in high school. I got my first one about 2 years out of college. I think the number I have now is from after that when I changed cell phone companies. There was a rule back in the Dark Ages that you couldn't port your number. There are several area codes for my part of the state, and my number has one of them.