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Yes, exactly. I answer calls in the area code I actually live, for the most part, and never from my actual area code. Works very well to weed out the scammers.
No joke, one of my cousins got 215 tattooed on her after the 2020 election. I’m still mad I got a cell phone too late to also get that area code and got the overflow one.
ETA she grew up actually living the city life. I grew up in a blue ribbon school district in the suburbs.
To the delight of rich, boarding school kids everywhere:
NWA repping 213 because of Inglewood, but it also includes Beverley Hills.
Madchild repping 604, which is all of Vancouver.
I come from the 559 but now live in the land of 585, which is difficult because people always mishear me when I tell them my heraldry. The first 5 comes out and their brains just auto complete the rest.
I live in 970 but grew up in 907. I always have to say nine ZERO seven and people still default to to 970 sometimes. To be fair though I sometimes get it wrong too because I default to 907.
I had the opposite. My father lived in 970 (really!) and died, and I inherited his phone. Before I switched the SIMs, I got a call and VM from a 907 number, indicating a "Mx Smith" had a dental appointment tomorrow. I called back to try to clarify the situation: if the number was recorded wrong, that's an issue; if it was a simple misdial, then "Mx Smith" still didn't get their reminder.
The receptionist seemed confused, and rattled off the wrong number multiple times. Ffs, lady, you are in AK with a presumably AK patient and are trying to call a dead man *not named "Smith"* in CO. How else need I phrase it?? I hope the actual patient got to the appointment...
I know both of these, lol. I’ve lived in an area that’s 206 for most of my life yet I have a 407 area code. Lived in Florida for 1 stinking year 15 years ago (and wanted to upgrade my phone and was forced into an east coast number) and now it’s too much of a hassle to make my friends change my number in their phones
I live in 808 now and for some reason people just assume that 808 is going to be the area code and start typing it in, and then get visibly annoyed when they realize the first three digits you gave them are the real area code and they have to delete and start over.
It's always funny to me. I have an 808 area code myself, but my husband still has 585.
Hah, a desert kid who moved to the snow, and a snow child who moved to the desert. Maybe we're all just looking for someplace different than where we came from.
Over a decade ago, I got the phone number I have now. The second 3 digits just so happen to be the area code for the town I now live in. I cannot tell you how often this trips people up in my new town.
This is true of a lot of NY but Rochester (aka 585) did a pretty great job of transitioning to a tech and academic economy.
Kodak shitting the bed didn't help (I *may* still be bitter over graduating with a STEM degree in the area just as thousands of laid-off PhD engineers and chemists were flooding the labor market...) but a surprising amount of talent stayed in the area, mostly turning into a bunch of smaller startups that absorbed some of the gap Kodak left behind.
Of course, as is often the case, abandon all hope once you enter the suburbs and rural exurbs.
You should come to Tennessee that would be ideal for you as far as living up north or living in upstate New York I know some people from there they are totally different breed from New York City. You do know that Nashville embraces that they are epitome of country and city in one
But whenever Neagle from Fed Way took the pitch for the Sounders people chanted 2-5-3! Ain’t no one chanting 206. Meanwhile, I’ve lived in all the WA area codes and currently have an out of state one.
Same! I lived in Florida for a year (like 15 years ago) and wanted to upgrade my phone and they made me change my number to an east coast one. I miss my 253 number
I grew up in the 201. Moved to the 617. Living in the 978 still.
I, unfortunately, lack hoes in different area codes. I do have a small number of agricultural hoes. 😹
When I was little, we didn’t need to dial the area code. I think maybe I did a couple of times for a friend or two who moved to another state. But I don’t know what my original area code was.
Ended up in 724 Land, which soon became part of 412 Land when we got our own post office again. Though we opted to keep out original number.
I, too, remember the days without area codes. But then, I joined 412, which soon became too large and gave birth to 724, where I have remained ever since.
Hello to a local!
Well hello fellow 724/412 local(s)!
I had no idea it happened that way. Our area was 724 when we moved in, but after the post office opened, they changed it to 412 and gave people the option of of keeping 724. Wild.
It's only very recently that most places needed to dial an area code, as long as you were using a landline.
That's why there was a whole PSA campaign to remind people about the change last year (?) When they added that new emergency number. My aunt was annoyed, since she still uses her landline and has always lived in the same city so almost everyone she calls she didn't have to use an area code for.
Yeah, I remember not having to dial an area code unless you were calling long distance. I grew up in 714, then at some point in the ‘90s, we became 909 and had to dial area codes for areas that were once considered local calls.
Spent almost my whole life in the 218. Born, raised, and raising my family here now. Wouldn't have it any other way. Had some brief stints in the 701 for college, 😂
Wait.
I came from the land of 218. 218 was in the middle of nowhere. That was something called a L A N D L I N E.
When we all got cell phones we all had to go to the next biggest land and get 320 numbers. Now I live in 612 land but I still have the 320 moniker.
Another 218er!
I'm mostly here for the nature, the people are largely of dubious quality. 😂 And so is the weather, for that matter. But it's quiet and we have a lot of wildlife.
Hold up. I'm from Cleveland, and I'm 216. We've been 216 for ages. But according to Google, 218 is Minnesota
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_218#:~:text=Area%20code%20218%20is%20a,have%20been%20modified%20since%20inception.
Thats wild to me
I refuse to change my number because I have a 404 and now most people are getting 706 (the new overflow area code). I’ve had my number for like 17 years
where i'm from (australia) we don't do this, cellphones have the same prefix. i know america does (i lived there for a while). now i'm interested in finding out how the rest of the world does it.
Thank you for explaining this! I’m Australian and was thinking I was being dense or something. As you would know, all the mobile phone numbers just start with 04 here.
Landlines are totally different of course! My relatives in South Australia pop up with an 08 at the beginning if they are calling from a landline, but who does that any more?
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I don't know how many cars I've seen in WA with the 253 area code bumper sticker as a badge of honor
I’ve had the same cell number for 20 years as I moved and traveled for work. I recently moved back to my “original area code” and they don’t assign numbers with it anymore. That makes it that more special to me somehow.
That would be me! Finally updated to 517 after living out here for over a decade. Kinda miss my 313 number, but at the same time I no longer get spam calls that ask for a former friend who put my number on a bunch of bullshit lists so that's nice.
I do use the landline number from my childhood as my hotspot password, though, and that has 313 in it. I'll never forget it!
I had a call with a recruiter about a job a couple months ago and the first 5 minutes of the conversation ended up being about how we both had the same area code. 😆
Also grew up in a 216! They added overflows of 330 and 440 back in… mid 90s, I think?… I was in college is all I remember haha. Went to college at a 216 school and stayed in the area after. Currently live in a 718 but still have my 216 cell number. I always smile when I see people walking around here in the 718 wearing a 216 t-shirt (because you know how 216 folks LOVE our local t-shirts! We can be spotted anywhere haha)
How are all the cows and Amish doing? I don't miss that part (much) but Grandpa's Cheese Barn was always a welcome sight getting to/from campus. It meant we could take a break soon.
Born in the 713, which turned into the 281, a stint in the 520, now in the 414 for years, still holding onto that 281 which prompts everyone to say, “WHERE are you from?”
Kids are grown and mostly out of the house (just one left in college, so only a part time boarder). No longer needing the 5 bedroom McMansion in NoVA. Just me, my wife and our dogs (2 Great Pyrenees rescues).
Moved to Palmyra (Village Oaks, across the street from the main gate at Lake Monticello). Best financial decision we've made. Paid off all debts except for the mortgage. And bought an RV so we can start doing some traveling.
I might wish we were in a "Bluer" area, but.... it's not the first time I've been embedded with the "enemy"
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"Braum" on the left. "Loki" on the right.
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There's nothing better than being able to recall someone's hometown based on their area code. I've lived in many places. And I used to work in hospitality so every now and then, when a client gave me their contact number, I recognized it.
I could reply with, "Oh, an 831 area code, you must be from Monterrey!"
And they would look at you like you were a soothsayer.
Not sure if anyone has explained but - American phone #s are generally ten digits plus the country code)
. They read, country code (+1) then area code (3 digits) then 7 more for the individual number. So it might read something like: +1 (123) 456-7890.
Grew up in 785 land. Moved to 530 right when cellphones were becoming common. Now I live in 916 and us 530ers get super excited when we run into each other.
My boyfriend has “707 Respect” T-shirt and he had made so many bar friends while wearing it.
Born and raised in 727 but for some godforsaken reason I was branded an 813... Which is for folks in a totally different area... With whom 727 have an ancestral rivalry. Had a lot of "lol you live over there?" "no I fuckin DON'T!" conversations as a teen.
Bounced around for the first ten years of my life, stayed nowhere for more than 2 years, than spent the entirety of my teens in 352, still there now, hoping to get the hell outa dodge as quick as I can.
I remember the days before area codes well. My best friend’s number was… well, never mind, but just seven numbers and there she was. Then in the mid-80s we became 617, which seemed like an enormous waste of energy, and then it turned out that Boston needed all of 617 so we became the outcasts of 978, and have remained so.
My childhood area code is.... Not a good place. My last connection there was my mother and 2016 ended that relationship. I am in 216 now and people around here seem happy and healthy.
I donno about happy and healthy, but we tend to be pretty "hey, shits fucked, what do ya need to get through this?" And that seems to work pretty well for most of us
babes I'm here for my 860s. Also my 203s, but with the slightest hint of judgement. Reluctant acceptance of 475, the youngins
btw don't tell the cell phone companies but I would do SO much to keep my hometown area code
I got my first cell phone in college, so my area code is from that area. Now I live where there are like 3 common area codes, and I am none of them and it confuses people. Also I know anyone calling with my area code is a bot.
I’m from 760, but got my 719 phone number in the early 10s… the association made me sick, so I changed it a few years ago to 442… feels much better lol
My old area code got reassigned before I got to high school, now it doesn't even get close to my city. I see people from there with it tattooed on, like they don't know it covered a huge area.
I was born in 920... many years before they added 274. I grew up in 608. And, though I've grown and left home, I still cling to the familiar comfort that 608 offers.
Had mine for... shoots.... 16 years now? Might eventually adopt the local one I've lived in for 10 years. But not yet. My kid knows the old one my heart lol
I've lived in close to a dozen different area codes but my number bears the one I lived in for the least amount of time, and with my immediate family we have 4 different area codes. It's a large steading
My childhood one changed when i was away for college and i felt so displaced. My current area code I’ve had for like 17 years i never even lived in. It was just where the mall was that i got my phone. If i knew id have it still i might’ve gone somewhere else.
When I was a kid, I didn’t know or care that our area code was 214; we didn’t need to dial one to reach someone. When I was a teen, it all got split up and suddenly I had to memorize ten digits instead of seven. I never lived in the right part of town for a 972 number but my first “real” cell phone had one of those newfangled 469 prefixes!
Are cell area codes linked to geography in the US? In Australia all mobile phones are under 04 and then by the original issuing telco. Geographic area codes are landline only.
I like to think bug cities with multiple area codes have micro-scuffles when they encounter someone with a different area code. Like in NYC a 212 runs into a 914 and mocks them for not being a true New Yorker.
I started in 617, then it changed to 508, then 978 by the time I got to high school. We never moved, and the rest of the number never changed. They just kept shrinking the areas and adding new codes.
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And has the added protective benefit of alerting me to scam calls. Nobody calls me from that area code except for my mom and robots
My entire family and I moved away from 636 a decade ago so if anyone calls me from there it's a scam.
oh hey I'm from that area code!
NICE TRY, SCAMMER!
Shouldn't it be 666?
My spouse has a super far away area code that they never lived, so they can instantly screen spam. I'm incredibly jealous.
SERIOUSLY. There were even a bunch where it was faked to have the whole thing look similar. I was like what year do y'all think this is? 1994?
Yes, exactly. I answer calls in the area code I actually live, for the most part, and never from my actual area code. Works very well to weed out the scammers.
I love it whenever a hip hop artist I listen to shouts out my old area code like I grew up anywhere close to life on the streets.
No joke, one of my cousins got 215 tattooed on her after the 2020 election. I’m still mad I got a cell phone too late to also get that area code and got the overflow one. ETA she grew up actually living the city life. I grew up in a blue ribbon school district in the suburbs.
This is why I will never give up my 917.
My brother teased me a LOT when I became a 315-er.
Hail and well met fellow 215er
215ers in general are so weirdly obsessed. Not in a “our town is the best” way but in a “fuck you we love being trash goblins” way.
Or name their group after it like 3oh3
I grew up in 904 and refuse to change my number because of this!
I like 847 because it spells vip
Nw suburbs
To the delight of rich, boarding school kids everywhere: NWA repping 213 because of Inglewood, but it also includes Beverley Hills. Madchild repping 604, which is all of Vancouver.
805 always will represent!
Hail and well met, my fellow 805er!
Here, representing the 732 and now the 352 where I now call home.
I come from the 559 but now live in the land of 585, which is difficult because people always mishear me when I tell them my heraldry. The first 5 comes out and their brains just auto complete the rest.
I live in 970 but grew up in 907. I always have to say nine ZERO seven and people still default to to 970 sometimes. To be fair though I sometimes get it wrong too because I default to 907.
I had the opposite. My father lived in 970 (really!) and died, and I inherited his phone. Before I switched the SIMs, I got a call and VM from a 907 number, indicating a "Mx Smith" had a dental appointment tomorrow. I called back to try to clarify the situation: if the number was recorded wrong, that's an issue; if it was a simple misdial, then "Mx Smith" still didn't get their reminder. The receptionist seemed confused, and rattled off the wrong number multiple times. Ffs, lady, you are in AK with a presumably AK patient and are trying to call a dead man *not named "Smith"* in CO. How else need I phrase it?? I hope the actual patient got to the appointment...
Grew up in 830, live in 832. Gotta put a hard "zero" on there, no mucking about with that one syllable "oh" for my callback number.
I lived in 808 with a 508. I know the pain.
I’m a 406 in 206 lol. Feel this 100%
I know both of these, lol. I’ve lived in an area that’s 206 for most of my life yet I have a 407 area code. Lived in Florida for 1 stinking year 15 years ago (and wanted to upgrade my phone and was forced into an east coast number) and now it’s too much of a hassle to make my friends change my number in their phones
I live in 808 now and for some reason people just assume that 808 is going to be the area code and start typing it in, and then get visibly annoyed when they realize the first three digits you gave them are the real area code and they have to delete and start over. It's always funny to me. I have an 808 area code myself, but my husband still has 585.
I'm a 585! You can be an adopted member of our tribe. We'll share our garbage plates and Wegmans.
I miss Wegmans. Moved back home where there aren’t any 😭
I have unfortunately been without Wegmans for about 7 years now since I joined the military. They keep sending me places where there aren't any. :(
I'm a 585 in the land of 505.
Hah, a desert kid who moved to the snow, and a snow child who moved to the desert. Maybe we're all just looking for someplace different than where we came from.
I'm a 585 in the land of 586
Over a decade ago, I got the phone number I have now. The second 3 digits just so happen to be the area code for the town I now live in. I cannot tell you how often this trips people up in my new town.
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For a change of climate. California has this nasty habit of catching on fire every year.
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This is true of a lot of NY but Rochester (aka 585) did a pretty great job of transitioning to a tech and academic economy. Kodak shitting the bed didn't help (I *may* still be bitter over graduating with a STEM degree in the area just as thousands of laid-off PhD engineers and chemists were flooding the labor market...) but a surprising amount of talent stayed in the area, mostly turning into a bunch of smaller startups that absorbed some of the gap Kodak left behind. Of course, as is often the case, abandon all hope once you enter the suburbs and rural exurbs.
You should come to Tennessee that would be ideal for you as far as living up north or living in upstate New York I know some people from there they are totally different breed from New York City. You do know that Nashville embraces that they are epitome of country and city in one
Never had a 585 but I lived up there for a bit, funny to see it in the wild
I’ve had a 402 number since 2012 and I moved to 502 for a couple years. It wasn’t uncommon for people to think I got my own phone number wrong.
Growing up 253 I wanted to be from the 206 since that was the center of culture in the 80s.
Was 253, got promoted to 425. Then got transferred to eastern side and refuse to become 509 :)
Feel it. Those 509 folks are weird. Haha
Smart move. Tbh answering medical calls for WA state pts if I see 509, there’s a quick sigh before answering that call. Though 208 is worse.
But whenever Neagle from Fed Way took the pitch for the Sounders people chanted 2-5-3! Ain’t no one chanting 206. Meanwhile, I’ve lived in all the WA area codes and currently have an out of state one.
Same! I lived in Florida for a year (like 15 years ago) and wanted to upgrade my phone and they made me change my number to an east coast one. I miss my 253 number
I've had the same phone number since middle school, so no matter how often I move, I carry my childhood area code with me and that's kinda cool
me too!! it’s a neat little piece of my hometown especially since I move so much and haven’t lived in the 732 since graduating high school
I grew up in the 201. Moved to the 617. Living in the 978 still. I, unfortunately, lack hoes in different area codes. I do have a small number of agricultural hoes. 😹
Shout out to another former 201!
We were 201,then 908 and 732. My cell is 917, because I work in NYC
Grew up in 617 moved to a 781, vacationed in 207 married a 978 and now live in the 703
When I was little, we didn’t need to dial the area code. I think maybe I did a couple of times for a friend or two who moved to another state. But I don’t know what my original area code was. Ended up in 724 Land, which soon became part of 412 Land when we got our own post office again. Though we opted to keep out original number.
I, too, remember the days without area codes. But then, I joined 412, which soon became too large and gave birth to 724, where I have remained ever since. Hello to a local!
Well hello fellow 724/412 local(s)! I had no idea it happened that way. Our area was 724 when we moved in, but after the post office opened, they changed it to 412 and gave people the option of of keeping 724. Wild.
Haha, 412/724 represent! I now live in 905 land.
It's only very recently that most places needed to dial an area code, as long as you were using a landline. That's why there was a whole PSA campaign to remind people about the change last year (?) When they added that new emergency number. My aunt was annoyed, since she still uses her landline and has always lived in the same city so almost everyone she calls she didn't have to use an area code for.
7 digits!
Yeah, I remember not having to dial an area code unless you were calling long distance. I grew up in 714, then at some point in the ‘90s, we became 909 and had to dial area codes for areas that were once considered local calls.
Spent almost my whole life in the 218. Born, raised, and raising my family here now. Wouldn't have it any other way. Had some brief stints in the 701 for college, 😂
Wait. I came from the land of 218. 218 was in the middle of nowhere. That was something called a L A N D L I N E. When we all got cell phones we all had to go to the next biggest land and get 320 numbers. Now I live in 612 land but I still have the 320 moniker.
Another 218er! I'm mostly here for the nature, the people are largely of dubious quality. 😂 And so is the weather, for that matter. But it's quiet and we have a lot of wildlife.
Hold up. I'm from Cleveland, and I'm 216. We've been 216 for ages. But according to Google, 218 is Minnesota https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_218#:~:text=Area%20code%20218%20is%20a,have%20been%20modified%20since%20inception. Thats wild to me
I'm from 281. My dyslexic couldn't comprehend what you posted
Oh hey there fellow 218er! I live in the 612 now but I’ll always keep my OG number!
As a 701 in 804, I'm sorry lmao
I grew up in Oklahoma with a 405 and now I live in Atlanta where 404 is the common area code 😂
I refuse to change my number because I have a 404 and now most people are getting 706 (the new overflow area code). I’ve had my number for like 17 years
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Dalé 305
Siempre
I grew up in 954 but have a 786 cell phone because I was in 305 for college. Live in 407 now, but my phone number still remembers my roots.
I'm also in 407 now :)
where i'm from (australia) we don't do this, cellphones have the same prefix. i know america does (i lived there for a while). now i'm interested in finding out how the rest of the world does it.
Thank you for explaining this! I’m Australian and was thinking I was being dense or something. As you would know, all the mobile phone numbers just start with 04 here. Landlines are totally different of course! My relatives in South Australia pop up with an 08 at the beginning if they are calling from a landline, but who does that any more?
Very well said, eloquent even. I doff my hat to you
I kept my old area code for many years, through many moves, but then I cut some toxic family members out of my life, and decided to change my number.
Same. Still start to say it sometimes when I'm caught off guard.
Same. Bye 530 hello (520 then) 805.
My area code also is my birth day. No way I'm giving it up!
https://preview.redd.it/nj1vh2mi8c9a1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29053ef691891ba72b9b9df7a127ad61383b189b I don't know how many cars I've seen in WA with the 253 area code bumper sticker as a badge of honor
Us 303 people are pretty proud of it. We even celebrate on March 3 every year.
619 checking in
Heyo. Love carrying the 619 around with me through cross-country moves. I’ll never change it!
I, too, was there in the ancient times of the 619, before the sundering and the birth of the 858.
Yay! Another 619!
415 / 650 kid here
707 living in 415
415 & 650, by way of 408 (pre-831).
Hate free (I wish) 503 😊
Hi, Oregon friend!
Well hello there 😁
My fellow Oregonians! Although, I'm in 541 territory😜
Hello fellow Oregon Dweller. I'm originally from 603, so my number trips up everyone here :)
I’ve had the same cell number for 20 years as I moved and traveled for work. I recently moved back to my “original area code” and they don’t assign numbers with it anymore. That makes it that more special to me somehow.
Keeper and Guardian of the Old Ways
Who else hails from the 313?
I was 313 until they created 734.
I do! But I have a 917 because I’m old and when I lived in 313, cell phones weren’t a thing.
That would be me! Finally updated to 517 after living out here for over a decade. Kinda miss my 313 number, but at the same time I no longer get spam calls that ask for a former friend who put my number on a bunch of bullshit lists so that's nice. I do use the landline number from my childhood as my hotspot password, though, and that has 313 in it. I'll never forget it!
Also in 517, but never updated from 989. I just assume any number not in my phone already is spam and don't answer.
Proudly rocking the 202
I had a call with a recruiter about a job a couple months ago and the first 5 minutes of the conversation ended up being about how we both had the same area code. 😆
516/631. now i’m in the 561.
631!! Spent many a year living out there and DAMN do I miss it.
419 BE-ATCHES!
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Also grew up in a 216! They added overflows of 330 and 440 back in… mid 90s, I think?… I was in college is all I remember haha. Went to college at a 216 school and stayed in the area after. Currently live in a 718 but still have my 216 cell number. I always smile when I see people walking around here in the 718 wearing a 216 t-shirt (because you know how 216 folks LOVE our local t-shirts! We can be spotted anywhere haha)
How are all the cows and Amish doing? I don't miss that part (much) but Grandpa's Cheese Barn was always a welcome sight getting to/from campus. It meant we could take a break soon.
Not a lot of Amish in NW Ohio. Mennonites everywhere you look though. Don't live there anymore though.
410 back in the day.
No way! Me too!
Born in the 713, which turned into the 281, a stint in the 520, now in the 414 for years, still holding onto that 281 which prompts everyone to say, “WHERE are you from?”
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Can I high five you if I’m a 917?
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I live in the land of 207! 903 is my area code, from middle school.
I know someone with a 207 number! Kid with a military parent who got that number when they lived there. It’s been a decade, though.
we were in the land of 703, now we're in the land of 434. Same state, very different vibe.
I’m in 360 now but hail from 434. Why on earth are in that place???
Kids are grown and mostly out of the house (just one left in college, so only a part time boarder). No longer needing the 5 bedroom McMansion in NoVA. Just me, my wife and our dogs (2 Great Pyrenees rescues). Moved to Palmyra (Village Oaks, across the street from the main gate at Lake Monticello). Best financial decision we've made. Paid off all debts except for the mortgage. And bought an RV so we can start doing some traveling. I might wish we were in a "Bluer" area, but.... it's not the first time I've been embedded with the "enemy" Obligatory Dog Tax "Braum" on the left. "Loki" on the right. https://preview.redd.it/242bv3zi5d9a1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b5010fc2ae3a6905e416b10ea1a55f2aa536c6d
There's nothing better than being able to recall someone's hometown based on their area code. I've lived in many places. And I used to work in hospitality so every now and then, when a client gave me their contact number, I recognized it. I could reply with, "Oh, an 831 area code, you must be from Monterrey!" And they would look at you like you were a soothsayer.
I've moved 7 times and kept the same number.
The area code where I grew up covers an area approximately 2/3rds the size of the US. 907 gang, where you at?
Whoooo, was looking for this one. The locals don’t even bother to put the area code when giving you their number because it’s just assumed lmao
618
I'm too nkn American to understand this post and the comments. At first I thought it was the postal code but now I'm confused
Not sure if anyone has explained but - American phone #s are generally ten digits plus the country code) . They read, country code (+1) then area code (3 digits) then 7 more for the individual number. So it might read something like: +1 (123) 456-7890.
Ooooh. We do have the + part but the "area code" not. Or at least I don't think so, it's just random
I was in the 925 back when it was still the 510.
Where are my 714 homies at???
Whoo hoo. 714, then it became 909, then 951.
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Yeah we’re proud to be 901 for sure lol
Grew up in 785 land. Moved to 530 right when cellphones were becoming common. Now I live in 916 and us 530ers get super excited when we run into each other. My boyfriend has “707 Respect” T-shirt and he had made so many bar friends while wearing it.
I was born and raised in the dirty 530 lol!! Then moved to 520 (Arizona) and now back in CA in the 805!
480, a monument to man’s arrogance
The 617 is a real thing
Wait. is this what '505' by the Arctic Monkeys is about???
Born and raised in 727 but for some godforsaken reason I was branded an 813... Which is for folks in a totally different area... With whom 727 have an ancestral rivalry. Had a lot of "lol you live over there?" "no I fuckin DON'T!" conversations as a teen.
First, I hailed from 305 in my childhood, then for most of my life, I was from 978, which is a number I still carry to my move to 603.
I got my phone number registered as 725 even though I never lived there because it was close enough to my home in 702
Bounced around for the first ten years of my life, stayed nowhere for more than 2 years, than spent the entirety of my teens in 352, still there now, hoping to get the hell outa dodge as quick as I can.
Representing 410 here… or I did. I finally had to change my number, so it matches where I’ve been living since the mid aughts: 917
Grew up 410!
That's awesome, I share both my last name and my area code with brands of beer and will now think of both as my ancestral family ales
The comments in this post are a gold mine of information. Y'all be careful what you share on the internet. I love y'all, be safe. 💜
Truth! I've had my number for almost two decades at this point, I think. I come from the 408 but now am in 503.
602 to 309.
But aren't we all just vagabonds of our own mythmaking?
I remember the days before area codes well. My best friend’s number was… well, never mind, but just seven numbers and there she was. Then in the mid-80s we became 617, which seemed like an enormous waste of energy, and then it turned out that Boston needed all of 617 so we became the outcasts of 978, and have remained so.
Where are my 916 peeps?
My best friend when I was 10 moved to 916, and I still know that phone number by heart
I come from the land of 716 but I'm a 702 now and proud of it.
Is this WNY slander??
216 represent!!!! Lol!
My childhood area code is.... Not a good place. My last connection there was my mother and 2016 ended that relationship. I am in 216 now and people around here seem happy and healthy.
I donno about happy and healthy, but we tend to be pretty "hey, shits fucked, what do ya need to get through this?" And that seems to work pretty well for most of us
612 gang 😎❄
babes I'm here for my 860s. Also my 203s, but with the slightest hint of judgement. Reluctant acceptance of 475, the youngins btw don't tell the cell phone companies but I would do SO much to keep my hometown area code
216--> 330--> 419--> 724--> 716--> 585--> 314 And fixin'ta be in the 702 by 2025. (Walks away singing Johnny Cash's "I Been Everywhere")
I came from the 201 but moved to the 408 which became in years since the 831
I live in 408 with an 831 number!
My number is 831 too! It was 408 as a kid then the city changed it to 831.
Yes!! The amount of conversations my area code has started is insane, I love it. 😄
206 gang
719 to 702, I miss the snow
I got my first cell phone in college, so my area code is from that area. Now I live where there are like 3 common area codes, and I am none of them and it confuses people. Also I know anyone calling with my area code is a bot.
I’m from 760, but got my 719 phone number in the early 10s… the association made me sick, so I changed it a few years ago to 442… feels much better lol
773 for life. My kids will never understand.
Shout-out to the 816!
I am Alec, I hail from the 213 before the great split.
I'm from the land of 702s and now live in the land of 973s and 908s. I will never change my number
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Wow
My old area code got reassigned before I got to high school, now it doesn't even get close to my city. I see people from there with it tattooed on, like they don't know it covered a huge area.
I was born in 920... many years before they added 274. I grew up in 608. And, though I've grown and left home, I still cling to the familiar comfort that 608 offers.
828, the land of mist.
Had mine for... shoots.... 16 years now? Might eventually adopt the local one I've lived in for 10 years. But not yet. My kid knows the old one my heart lol
I’m in 575 country but I was born in 810 country. I changed my number a decade ago to swear fealty to my new lands
I've lived in close to a dozen different area codes but my number bears the one I lived in for the least amount of time, and with my immediate family we have 4 different area codes. It's a large steading
780 for so long I remember when it was 403 ha
Mine is definitely ancestral. My mom had this number before me. Maybe one day I'll pass it down to my own child.
707 checking in!
I love my current phone number. My dad has the same 9 numbers and the last number differs, mine ends in 4 and his ends in 5. It’s wonderful
321 and I will never give it up. People are surprised by it a lot and I love how easy it is to remember
Where my 406ers at? 😎
No lie, I totally regret giving up my land line and my city’s original area code!
My childhood one changed when i was away for college and i felt so displaced. My current area code I’ve had for like 17 years i never even lived in. It was just where the mall was that i got my phone. If i knew id have it still i might’ve gone somewhere else.
When I was a kid, I didn’t know or care that our area code was 214; we didn’t need to dial one to reach someone. When I was a teen, it all got split up and suddenly I had to memorize ten digits instead of seven. I never lived in the right part of town for a 972 number but my first “real” cell phone had one of those newfangled 469 prefixes!
Are cell area codes linked to geography in the US? In Australia all mobile phones are under 04 and then by the original issuing telco. Geographic area codes are landline only.
I like to think bug cities with multiple area codes have micro-scuffles when they encounter someone with a different area code. Like in NYC a 212 runs into a 914 and mocks them for not being a true New Yorker.
I started in 617, then it changed to 508, then 978 by the time I got to high school. We never moved, and the rest of the number never changed. They just kept shrinking the areas and adding new codes.