Chat Line Numbers in Boston, MA

Calling a chat line from Boston

Boston is a college town on a metropolitan scale, with dozens of universities feeding a young, seasonal population into neighborhoods like Allston, Fenway and Cambridge. Callers in the city, Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline share the 617 and 857 overlays, the inner ring of suburbs from Quincy to Waltham to Lynn uses 781 and 339, and the outer suburbs toward Framingham and Worcester dial from 508 and 774. Networks match the whole Greater Boston area into one room, so the toll-free numbers below connect Dorchester with Somerville and Newton. The college-oriented and younger singles lines fit the student population, the mainstream lines serve the rest of the city, and the South End's gay community and the Latino neighborhoods of East Boston and Jamaica Plain give the gay and bilingual lines an audience. First calls are free on every line.

Boston area codes & local room notes

• 617 and 857 cover Boston, Cambridge and the closest suburbs; 781 and 339 form a ring around them; 508 and 774 cover the outer metro and Worcester. Networks pool all of them as Greater Boston.
• Southern New Hampshire callers on 603 in Nashua, Manchester and the Seacoast commute into Boston and are sometimes routed into the Boston room, though this varies by network.
• Boston's student population is heavily seasonal, arriving in late August and thinning out in May, which most affects the college-oriented and younger singles lines.