I mean “attached” as in emotionally.
I used to have a 312 number and then in the late 90s it moved to 773. I still miss 312. If I get a cell phone I’ll get a 312 number 'cause 312 sounds much cooler than 773.
So are you attached to your area code? Would you be mad to lose it?
Nope. I was in area code 615 until 1995, but barely even remember it (I was 13 then) and have been in 423 most of the rest of the time. If we were split off again, I wouldn’t care at all, except for the minor inconvenience of telling friends my new number.
It would be really weird to not be 803 anymore. I’ve been 803 all my life except for college. The whole state used to be 803, I think.
I thought I’d gotten over it, but I realized I only convinced myself I had so I wouldn’t feel like a sucker for living in 323. Pfft, 323 could be anywhere. That could be Hollywood for Chrissakes! Then I moved to a different part of LA closer to downtown and got my 213 area code, I found myself proudly giving my phone number away. That’s right 213 then whatever my number was. That is so lame, but here we are.
Absolutely. I’m clinging to my 805 area code. There was talk about splitting Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and there would be a battle as to who got to keep the area code. Ventura has a lot more people but I think we have more billionaires.
Yep.
I miss 803, to tell the truth. You wouldn’t think there’s that much difference between 704 and 803, but I just like the soft curvaceousness of 803. It’s comforting.
I’ve already made my mom promise that if she decides to move and doesn’t take her phone number with her to give me enough warning so I can set up a cell phone to get it. She’s had it since like 1962.
No. My are code is 02 and covers the whole of my state (NSW) and the neighbouring ACT.
I miss my 805 area code.
We had 203 then those rich bastards stole it and shafted us with 860. No, not attached to it at all.
I thought I’d gotten over it. I grew up with 313, then it became 810, and then again 586, which it currently is now. I still miss 313, but at the same time, any time I receive a call from “313” I’m a little leery, because it’s now firmly associated with Detroit. And yet, my work cell phone (Dearborn, not Detroit) is a 313 number. Don’t know how that happened, with the lack of area codes and all.
I’m a purist. My area code MUST have a 1 or 0 in the middle position. All of the numbers I’ve had were 504 except for the 601 number I had for a couple of years after Katrina. At one time, I knew the area code of most major cities. Now, I have no idea where a call is coming from when I look at the CallerID unless it’s somewhere close to here.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a 212 or a 213 or a 312 or a 214 come up.
Hell yeah, 514 is SO much better than the 450!
The area codes correspond to the geography here (514 on the island, 450 off it), so the “rivalries” or perceived differences between the residents of the two areas are oddly associated with the numbers.
No one knows what to think about 438. though it’s also assigned to the island.
Growing up, I was in the 819 area…it was alright. It covered such a large area, though, that you could actually call another 819 number and have it be long-distance. That was annoying.
I agree that it feels utterly wrong to me to have an area code that doesn’t have a 0 or 1 in the middle. Therefore, giving up 718 or 917 for 347, or 646, or whatever the “other” area codes in NYC are these days is shudder-inducing.
If I got a land line number that was 347 with no way to get a “real” area code, I’d ditch it completely and keep my 917 cell phone number.
I have friends in Sea Cliff (Long Island) that have 516 area codes on their home number and cells. I guess they haven’t run out of numbers that far out of NYC yet. The 516 is the only reason I can remember their numbers. An area code without that 1 or 0 throws me off so much that I won’t be able to remember the number at all.
It’s traumatic. I used to be a 219 and “they” changed us to 260 and 765. The northwest corner of the state got to keep the 219, lucky bastids.
+1
960 isn’t bad but 805 is what I grew up with.
People who live in big cities honestly are surprised by this? As I said upthread, when I was a kid 803 was the whole state of South Carolina.
ETA - and ten digit dialing is for the weak.
Interesting, are they splitting area codes (or whatever they call them) in Australia?
In America, splits and new codes were very common, till the people responsible for such things stopped giving phone companies blocks of 10,000 numbers and started giving them blocks of 1,000
Quite the opposite. When we moved to eight digit individual telephone numbers, the area codes were able to be consolidated. There are now only four geographical area codes for landlines (02, 03, 07, 08) for the whole country.
Heh, no, not surprised by it, but I guess I wasn’t very clear, and that’s my fault. Clearly, living in, say, Sherbrooke, and calling Gatineau, I’d expect to call long distance, even in the 819. But one of my best friends in high school lived about 17 km away from me, a straight shot down the highway, but “on the other side” of Sherbrooke, and he was a long distance call. *That’s * what was annoying!!
While from home, I know that any 514 number is a direct call. It’s more practical.
AFAIK, all area codes in Quebec are 10-digit dialling now.