Do you wish you could live in Detroit, but can't? Now you can get the next best thing, a 313 area code phone number from Google Voice.

What is it? Google Voice lets you select a phone number, and that number becomes your phone number for voicemail, forwarding calls to other phones, and you can use your pc to call. For now it is a free service.

Sign up with Google and get an email account, then go to google.com/voice. Select a phone number, and choose wisely, grasshopper, because that is the last number you will ever need.

Then set up your voice mail and add your home and cell phones to call forwarding. Tell both of your friends that your new phone number is 313-666-9999 [[or your new number). When they call that number, it will forward the call to your cell and home phones.

So where ever you live, you can get a 313 area code phone number.