I don’t think I explained it very well.

Evan, let’s say I want to call YOU on a regular basis. You’re long distance, so I go to GV and set up a “local” number that corresponds to YOU. I have this number listed in speed dial. So when I call you, I’m not using an outbound call on my phone line, but an inbound call to your line (which I tied to a GV number)

Does that make sense? Basically, I use GV to create a local number that auto-forwards to their actual number. I realize that this isn’t how Google intended their product to be used.

Obviously, you wouldn’t want to do this for every member of your family/friends, but it could work if you call a few of them very frequently.