My present cell number area code is one of several for my metro area, and is the area code that covers landlines in the area where I lived when I first got a cell and the area code that first cell had. It's not the area code that landlines get in the part of town where I live now -- we have two divided more-or-less geographically and one area-wide catchall code -- but it's a local call from here. My mom lives in the same metro area, although nearly as far from me as she could be and still be in the same area (it's ~50 miles from my house to hers), and has the whole time I've had a cell.
I generally would specify where I'm "from" as where I live now -- I've been here a good long while, and my accent reflects it, so in general if someone asked, "Hey, where are you from?" I think that's what they'd be expecting. There are circumstances, like if someone asked where I'm originally from, where I might give a different answer, but that'd be uncommon.
I've changed my cell number once, about 5 years ago, when I was issued a phone by my employer -- I'm allowed to use it for personal calls, so I dropped my personal cell. I could have had them port the number at that time, but chose not to -- when this area first split area codes, all the numbers in outlying areas were reassigned from the original code to the new code, and the number I got for my personal cell was one that a business in the new code had previously had, and there were still a lot of business directories and such that had their number with the old area code, and I got a ridiculous number of wrong-number calls for them. I kept thinking it would taper off, so I didn't ask for a new number early on, and then later, I'd given it out to so many people I didn't really want to change, but I was still getting 3-4 wrong-number calls a week, so I decided it was worth the hassle when I was switching to the company phone anyway.
"Home" is definitely ambiguous. I consider where I live now home, but I also have a hometown I grew up in, and I'll periodically say "going home" to refer to the city where my dad lives, and the small town my parents came from and most of my extended family still lives in or near. So, four.
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Date: 2009-09-16 03:36 pm (UTC)I generally would specify where I'm "from" as where I live now -- I've been here a good long while, and my accent reflects it, so in general if someone asked, "Hey, where are you from?" I think that's what they'd be expecting. There are circumstances, like if someone asked where I'm originally from, where I might give a different answer, but that'd be uncommon.
I've changed my cell number once, about 5 years ago, when I was issued a phone by my employer -- I'm allowed to use it for personal calls, so I dropped my personal cell. I could have had them port the number at that time, but chose not to -- when this area first split area codes, all the numbers in outlying areas were reassigned from the original code to the new code, and the number I got for my personal cell was one that a business in the new code had previously had, and there were still a lot of business directories and such that had their number with the old area code, and I got a ridiculous number of wrong-number calls for them. I kept thinking it would taper off, so I didn't ask for a new number early on, and then later, I'd given it out to so many people I didn't really want to change, but I was still getting 3-4 wrong-number calls a week, so I decided it was worth the hassle when I was switching to the company phone anyway.
"Home" is definitely ambiguous. I consider where I live now home, but I also have a hometown I grew up in, and I'll periodically say "going home" to refer to the city where my dad lives, and the small town my parents came from and most of my extended family still lives in or near. So, four.