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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 4678621" data-attributes="member: 891"><p>Zip codes here radiate out.</p><p></p><p>Everyone in a metro region will share the first 2 or 3 numbers, and two adjacent codes will just have the last number different. So it is a handy way for gauging 'viable distance'.</p><p></p><p>Example:</p><p><a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=California+Zip+Code+map&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=iqWhSYqhBoKOsQOTvLm_CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title" target="_blank">LONG URL of google image search</a></p><p></p><p>If I see a 940xx or a 941xx, I know that person is close to me. But a 942xx is too far. Once you know your own zip code, a scan of the first three pulls up anything very close. Changing digit 3 by one number up or down can give you the next regions over, and one hit there tells you what is close or far.</p><p></p><p>For me 941 is just across my city line, as I'm on the north edge of 940 (on a rare day without fog, I can see those pesky 941ers with their 941er ways lurking about over there <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />), but 942 is about 100 miles away at the state capital. So I'm in the exception - where there are two 3rd digits that work for me. For most people in large metro-regions, the first 3 digits are a map of everything nearby.</p><p></p><p>It just gives you the most viable list to start working with, particularly in places that have a lot of small cities or small towns close together - such as San Francisco's bay area, New England, and Seattle. I would think for New York too, but maybe they're more used to calling themselves New Yorkers even when one lives in the Bronx, another in Harlem, Long Island, or Manhattan. When I call some of my friends over there, they correct me with 'no I'm not in New York, I'm in A, B, or C, and others correct me and say 'yeah, this is technically A, but it's really New York... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /></p><p>- Which honestly happens here in California too... and is another reason why using the numbers helps to remove the layer of human-induced confusion.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Anyway - this isn't a 'make or break' thingy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Just thought it would be a handy suggestion. On these people search engines I almost always search all of California and then scan through by hand - people fail to put the useful data in all too often.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 4678621, member: 891"] Zip codes here radiate out. Everyone in a metro region will share the first 2 or 3 numbers, and two adjacent codes will just have the last number different. So it is a handy way for gauging 'viable distance'. Example: [url=http://images.google.com/images?q=California+Zip+Code+map&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=iqWhSYqhBoKOsQOTvLm_CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title]LONG URL of google image search[/url] If I see a 940xx or a 941xx, I know that person is close to me. But a 942xx is too far. Once you know your own zip code, a scan of the first three pulls up anything very close. Changing digit 3 by one number up or down can give you the next regions over, and one hit there tells you what is close or far. For me 941 is just across my city line, as I'm on the north edge of 940 (on a rare day without fog, I can see those pesky 941ers with their 941er ways lurking about over there :confused:), but 942 is about 100 miles away at the state capital. So I'm in the exception - where there are two 3rd digits that work for me. For most people in large metro-regions, the first 3 digits are a map of everything nearby. It just gives you the most viable list to start working with, particularly in places that have a lot of small cities or small towns close together - such as San Francisco's bay area, New England, and Seattle. I would think for New York too, but maybe they're more used to calling themselves New Yorkers even when one lives in the Bronx, another in Harlem, Long Island, or Manhattan. When I call some of my friends over there, they correct me with 'no I'm not in New York, I'm in A, B, or C, and others correct me and say 'yeah, this is technically A, but it's really New York... :erm: - Which honestly happens here in California too... and is another reason why using the numbers helps to remove the layer of human-induced confusion. Anyway - this isn't a 'make or break' thingy. :) Just thought it would be a handy suggestion. On these people search engines I almost always search all of California and then scan through by hand - people fail to put the useful data in all too often. [/QUOTE]
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