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Hiltson87 t1_ixkstgc wrote

Richmond is 804. If you've got 686, fuck you.

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bkemp1984Part2 t1_ixmqgfg wrote

It's how we know you're a transplant and shouldn't like you.

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Mad-Lad-of-RVA t1_iy0k2o2 wrote

Joke's on you, buddy. I'm a transplant and I've got an 804 number. Take that!

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bkemp1984Part2 t1_iy2cfhw wrote

It's cool, I am one but with a 540, so I just try to keep my head down and not get say anything somebody from out of town would say.

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RefrigeratorRater t1_ixlpya4 wrote

From the article it sounds like 703 is the OG Richmond

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dr_nerdface t1_ixltyma wrote

703 is NoVA. that's what i grew up with.

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formerlymtnbkr531 t1_ixm19d2 wrote

No he’s right. 703 was the very first area code for VA so it really doesn’t s the original area code for RVA. It has just shrunk in footprint over time to just NOVA and did so before cell phones. Thus you don’t see any evidence of it outside of NOVA

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topo_gigio t1_ixmal52 wrote

Our area code in Fredericksburg changed from 703 to 540 when I was a kid, right after I'd memorized my phone number. That would have been in the early 90s.

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VaMoInNj t1_ixogmgn wrote

It interesting that when they added a code in VA that they went with 804. The original numbering plan had area codes with ‘0’ as the middle digit to be assigned to an entire state, and codes with ‘1’ in the middle to be for a portion of a state.

Until I just looked it up, I had always thought it was the opposite because of VA having 804 and 703 when I was growing up.

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