Well, since I'm done my probation period, and since I've accepted the new salary offer and am staying in Vancouver ... I should probably change my cell phone number over.
My cell phone bills have been around $10-15 more per month due to LD charges. When I answer my phone here, I get charged 10 cents/min (billed by the second) ... but I can make local calls for free. It would be a lot easier if I just switched over to a Vancouver number. At the very least, I would be saving money.
It shouldn't change my current cell phone plan ... and if it does, then I'll have to think long and hard about switching my number. My plan right now is so sweet. And if I had to pay for everything that I get, it would cost me more per month than the LD charges I'm paying right now.
Isn't it funny, that something so trivial can make you feel connected to where you came from? I remember when I moved to Michigan to go to university, there was a 3 hr. time difference ... and for the first 4 months I was there, I refused to change the time on my watch. It made me feel connected to who I was, and where I came from. Even though having the wrong time confused the hell out of me, and every time someone asked what time it was, I must have looked like a moron just staring at my watch, trying to subtract 3 hours (and then when I finally switched my watch over, I still kept subtracting 3 hrs., which probably made me look even more like an idiot). For some reason, it was a huge deal for me to finally give in and switch it to the proper time zone. It's the same thing with my cell phone number. By switching area codes, I'm finally giving into the fact that I live somewhere else now, and I no longer live in my hometown.
So I'm going to add it to my May Monthly Goals ... to figure out my cell phone predicament.
In 10 months, I eliminated $17,223 worth of debt. As of May 11th, 2007, I am 100% debt-free! Thanks for following along. :)
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Well, switching the time on your watch just makes everyone's lives easier. If you switch your cell phone #, you'll have to distribute it to all your friends and family and everyone who calls you, which can be a pain in the ass. Is there anyway to just add long distance to your plan? At least in LA, I don't know ANYONE who has a local area code.
Pretty slick how you just slid the info that you'd decided to stay in Vancouver into the post instead of making the post about your choice.
For what it's worth, I think it was the better career building decision (whereas the Island job was the "safe" choice). Of course, my opinion and $3.60 will get you a coffee at Starbucks.
As for switching the phone, it may be cheaper to switch your phone to a Vancouver number but don't forget that then you'll have LD charges whenever you spend a weekend on the Island. Right now those are local calls for you and you aren't noticing them.
We live here but own a place about 4 hours away and go there fairly regularly for 1 to 3 days per week. When we're there the cell phones get a workout. One of us will go to town (a 20 minute drive to get to Safeway) and call the other to ask if we need "x", or one of my big kids calls me from the Coast or my DH gets business calls.
It was adding up to a lot of money so I played with my Fido account and added a certain amount of LD minutes, etc. Now it's painful but I stay within the limit pretty well (which means no more $150 surprise cell bills).
As Strange Bird said, changing your number is a bit of a pain, so you might want to look into adding LD minutes (even though cell plans in Canada are nowhere near as cheap as US ones, darn it). Or you could switch and add LD for your calling on the Island....