livejournal is my decision-making process

[coraa]

I haven't bothered to change my phone number since moving to Seattle, so I've still got a 213 area code, which is LA, of course. I've been thinking about getting a new phone recently, and I'm trying to decide if it's worth changing my number when I do, to a Seattle area code.

The pros of changing are that the number are, obviously, that it will be local to where I live. (I'm not sure how many people that affects -- I think most of my friends mainly use cells -- but there may be some friends who it does affect, and of course things like the doctor's office, etc.) The cons are, equally obviously, that I'll have to tell everyone the new number, including changing it for credit card companies, doctor's offices, blah blah blah.

So I turn to LJ.

[Poll #1152733]

Bonus points if you can tell me why!

Comments

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who insisted on getting a new cell phone number whenever her contract was up so that people she did not particularly want to keep in touch with would not have her cell number. So, if you have a bunch of people who call you up a lot who you do not wish to speak with (bill collectors, for example), then get a new number.

Though I've also heard about somebody else (poor unfortunate soul) who got the phone number of a guy who owed lots of money. So he would have bill collectors call up asking him for money. He got fed up with it and changed numbers, only to have the bill collectors get ahold of his new number as well. Makes you wonder why the bill collectors didn't get the new number of the guy who had the number previously.