Reports of the Death of Phone Numbers Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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However, my wife complains that calling me is annoying as it's long distance.
This is in Canada, so I expect our telco's to be far behind the rest of the developed world, so it may not be as much of an issue elsewhere.
Upon moving 1000 miles, it took 8 years of badgering to convince me to switch our phone numbers to a local area code so it wouldn't sound like we lived somewhere else (endless "hey, isn't that a New York number?" when near Atlanta).
I haven't dialed a "local number" for nearly a decade. 10 digits is my norm - when I can't just poke one button and say "call __________".
Yet I remember the days when the entire town was just 4 rotary-dial digits away...
You could have two numbers and just forward or get an IP+Analogur phone like mine (Siemens Gigaset).