When I first got a car phone (a big bag phone with the antenna wired onto the roof of the car), you couldn’t buy car phones in my immediate area, and I drove halfway across the next state to buy it, thus the wrong area code. I’ve kept that number since, through all the replacements. My iPhone 6+ does not now have an antenna wired onto the roof of the car. Though, I have to wonder if that wouldn’t improve rural reception (which is why I still have a home phone, though only for calling out).
Cell phone only, and my 703 area code is the “right” one. (I have an aversion to the 571 area code…)
According to Wikipedia, I was in college when 410 was added (which sounds about right) and 443 got added six years later. A year after that I moved to Virginia: I’d gotten used to 410 (especially after my mom’s home number was changed to that area code), but to this day I never remember that 443 is Maryland. (And I’d never heard of the 667 mentioned in the article until just now.)
With a nod to the Maryland folks, I chuckled this morning on the way to work as I passed a hand-made sign on the side of the road for tennis lessons that gave a phone number without an area code. It made me realize that I don’t even know what the default area code IS for where I live!
I have only a cell phone and my area code is still back home in Indiana, even though I have since lived in NC and now in FL.
In a related note, Ms. Cups has her cell phone still on her Wisconsin area code and her work phone, a VOIP phone, is tied to Indianapolis where her company is held, even though she, too, lives in Florida.
This is entirely because my parents (and hers) live in our home states and we are still under our respective family plans
(I have an aversion to the 571 area code…)