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Discriminated for area code?

So the stupidest thing happened to me last night.

For context, I (30M) currently live in Manhattan, but overall new to the lower 48.

Was at a social club last night and ended up talking to a female friend group (3 of them, around my age) and the topic of dating came up.

They mentioned that a guy’s area code matters to them, kind of like an attribute like height / face

212 => the bee’s knees

646 and 718 => okay but not as desirable

908 => Jersey => hard pass (sorry NJ)

I brought up my Alaska area code and they laughed and said I’d have a hard time dating in this city with an area code like that!

I laughed it off, but the more I think about it, the more I think that’s weird!

Is this normal in NYC? Or maybe I missed the memo and it’s just a thing in the lower 48?