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I've had my phone number for about 16 years, I see no need to change it for any reason when there are essentially no long distance phone charges anymore.
It literally costs me the same to call California as it does across the street so getting a NJ area code and new number and having everyone update their phone numbers on their phones seems like no benefit to anyone.
Exactly
As they used to say (with a French accent) in those old Blue Bonnet margarine commercials...No difference!
Not as rare as people make it out to be. Anyone in the country can go on Google Voice and get a free 917 number. You can even get a 212 number if you are patient.
I just recently changed my Google Voice number. There are currently no 917 or 212 numbers available through GV. Verizon currently has several 917 exchanges available. I used to have a 212 cell phone number through AT&T. From what I was told AT&T owns the most cell numbers in the 212 area code, so if you want a 212 cell that would be the carrier to try.
I live and work in NJ right now, but my work cell is a 917 because the main East Coast office is in Manhattan and that's where I got my work phone, or as I like to call it, 'my 24-7/365 Corporate Ankle Monitor'.
I live and work in NJ right now, but my work cell is a 917 because the main East Coast office is in Manhattan and that's where I got my work phone, or as I like to call it, 'my 24-7/365 Corporate Ankle Monitor'.
I used to have one of those! First a Blackberry, then an iPhone.
Okay, I'll admit it. As a twenty something living in 201, I saw having a Manhattan prefix as a status symbol. If I couldn't afford to live in Manhattan, I'd at least have a Manhattan number and let people think that I did.
Um, yeah, some of us lived here when it was 201 and 609.
And ALL of NYC was 212. Then came beepers and fax.
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