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My husband refuses to change area codes. Candidly, I kept mine because I knew I would always be moving back home eventually (and I was write - returned home last year!). I think it's going to be weird for the next generation when you have to say things like "I need to call my daddy, do you have long distance?"... or does not having long distance even exist anymore?

Mine doesn't match, and DH and I don't even have the same area code! It's just way too much of a hassle to change it, especially when between the two of us, we've lived in 7 states over the last 9 years. When we do finally settle somewhere, I imagine we'll both get the same area code.

The biggest pain is that DH's area code is one digit off from the area code where we live now, and we have to constantly tell people, "it's not ____", it's "____". That part, I could do without. Otherwise, it's not a huge deal. You can even have different area codes on a family plan with Verizon!

@LovelyPlum: it's really simple. You sign up via Google and you get choices of numbers. It's linked to your phone number. So if someone calls you at your Google voice number your phone will ring and the automated machine will tell you so and so is calling. Do you want to take the call or send to voice mail? Your voice mail can be listened to via the Google voice app and it's also emailed to you as a transcript (horribly hilarious btw) or a voice file in your email too I believe.

I use it any situation where I don't want to give my personal number out.

Cause it would be a pain to change the number and update everyone/thing, and I'm lazy?

Actually, mine does match. We got new phones/carrier last year and got new numbers then. We could have kept our old ones, but for us, it was sort of deciding that this was "home" to us now?

Before that, we lived in Pittsburgh but had Philly numbers. For a few years after I moved to Philly I still had a New Orleans number, which I definitely held onto for nostalgia's sake--I wanted something from home after Katrina. D kept his upstate NY number for like a decade after he left because he loves it there.

Mine doesn't. I live in AZ & still have my SC area code. I've had this # for 10 years so don't feel like changing it & it was local so I could talk to my grandma with no long distance charges. My husband on the other hand, just got a cell phone a month ago (yes he'd been without one for 6 years....true story!) and his has our AZ area code.