Comments on: Area Codes as Status Symbols

By: affy

affy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:59:00 +0000

I live in 949. which is code for laguna beach and newport beach, california. not to be mistaken with “the 909″ where all the trashy bros in the I.E. live.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:41:00 +0000

Fuck you Zach, 609 is where it’s at!

By: b

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:43:00 +0000

312 is the best code in all IL. I don’t know what you’re talking about w/no stigma on it. All my friends wanted 312s over suburb codes.

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:00:00 +0000

whoaa…. gotta represent for the 707! say it backwards foo!

By: lemonparty

lemonparty — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:06:00 +0000

216 is beloved of Clevelanders as the original area code. There is now 440 for a lot of the suburbs, and cellphones. I was weirdly stoked to get a 216 cell number.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Somehow my boss managed to score a NYC cell phone with the prefix (212). Needless to say, it draws comment when I have to give it out to clients

By: tami

tami — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:00:00 +0000

if your talking about southern california area codes, clearly the big loser is the 909.. everyone mocks them. granted, most of them are cows, or living in a fancy house in the desert surrounded by cows… it’s a smelly area.

i live in dallas now, and as far as i know there is no coveted area code. there’s also no apparent reasoning behind the area code overlays. if you’re wanting the original, it’s 214.

By: jenni

jenni — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:32:00 +0000

I can’t believe nobody on here has thrown out the 303! (Denver, CO) Now made popular by the band by the same name (from boulder colorado) 3oh!3.

REPRESENT!

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:48:00 +0000

Big up to the 804. Richmond, VA and surrounding areas. I always look down on people with 703’s because that means they are from Northern VA (though I am pretty sure they think they are looking down on me in the 804). I love my 804 in RVA.

By: clare

clare — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:05:00 +0000

773 represent. chicago really only has the two- 312 for downtown and 773 for the neighborhoods.

then the suburbs are- 630 for the west, 708 for the south, and 847 for the north. beyond them, the exurbs are 815. it is all rather logical. however, i do believe there are some new ones being overlaid.

and ’nuff said’- 312 is an excellent beer. but otherwise, having been born and raised in chicago, there aren’t many stereotypes associated with area codes here.

and we don’t have any cool airport codes either. :-(