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ThatChildNextDoor OP t1_ixko5cd wrote

Thank our heavenly father that the middle digit wasn't two numbers down..I would have brought put the ENTIRE congregation to protest.

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[deleted] t1_ixkskqy wrote

Hurry, someone write a rap song about the 686

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Hiltson87 t1_ixkstgc wrote

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

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RammmITTT t1_ixkv6c6 wrote

Yall either gotta wear a raincoat or just stop fuggin. There's entirely too many of us.

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RefrigeratorRater t1_ixlptjc wrote

TBH when I first moved to Richmond, I thought the 804 number was goofy AF because I associated it with the toll free number of 800. But I’ve gotten used to it now and it’s so easy to say.

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piso_mojado t1_ixltb8n wrote

I’m still rocking my 919 area code, but I wouldn’t mind having an 804 as well. I’ve tried a Google number, but I want something that is seamlessly integrated. Anybody have a suggestion on a cheap way to have an 804 number without ditching my 919 one?

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jdbug100 t1_ixltu08 wrote

Umm I can’t look at the clock and ever have it be 6:86 like I can 8:04. No thanks

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Error_55 t1_ixlu8hg wrote

Why was 6 afraid of 8?

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airykillm t1_ixlvmpf wrote

I grew up in NOVA and remember when 703 added 571. Most of the 571 numbers end up being cell phones. You get used to it after a while.

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try_by t1_ixlzftz wrote

No, it isn’t.

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formerlymtnbkr531 t1_ixm19d2 wrote

Replying to dr_nerdface (#648,173)

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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Mr_Boneman t1_ixm34vs wrote

If only using 804 is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

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glboisvert t1_ixm44fz wrote

If I have an 804 number, does that give me credit towards no longer being a Yankee carpet bagger?

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DeannaZone t1_ixn1iub wrote

Replying to ThatChildNextDoor (#644,157)

I am so confused why so many people lose their number and have to change it, I am sticking with my 804 as long as I can and if there was a way to get my first original number from when I moved to VA I would totally do it.

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albertnormandy t1_ixnukyg wrote

We Hampton Roads people had 804 unilaterally taken from us 25 years ago.

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VaMoInNj t1_ixogmgn wrote

Replying to formerlymtnbkr531 (#649,067)

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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RubHerBabyBuggyBmper t1_ixzj68z wrote

> The 804 covers all of the Richmond region, from Petersburg to King William, plus, inexplicably, the Northern Neck.

Did the author not look at the map she linked? Not only does 804 go past King William, it is also pretty understandable why it covers the Northern Neck. Very strange editorializing.

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