At 10:37 AM 3-27-2002 -0600, Indy Rutks wrote:
>Oh Heavens... We Twin Citians could regale you for *hours* about our "fun
>with area code changes"!
>
>For future reference, Minneapolis (and *only* Minneapolis) remains 612. St.
>Paul & the eastern suburbs are 651. NW 'burbs are 763, and SW 'burbs are
>952.

OK - metro population for the Twin Cities is about 3 million; 4 area
codes?  NYC, with ~8 million, has 5 (3 for Manhattan, two for the outer
boroughs).

1 area code has about 10,000,000 numbers, so New York has 50/8, or 6
numbers available per person.  Metro Minneapolis/Saint Paul has 40/3, or
about 13.  Are you saying that people in the Twin Cities talk twice as much
as New Yorkers?

Joe
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