"Dave S" wrote in message
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The occasions that I have departed from towered fields in the HOU
terminal airspace, I have only recieved a local (tower or Tracon) code
with regards to VFR flight following. Never a center code, even when
they know you are heading out of bounds. The drill is "get terminated,
call up the center in a few miles"

We do this as standard procedure because that's what people want. We have
found that virtually nobody wants center flight following, less than 5% ask
for it, whether on the ground before departure or in the air.