Gold Coast?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Gold Coast is Arlington and McLean along the Potomac by chain bridge road. You can't afford anything there.

You don't know anything so why even comment?

I do know what I'm talking about. The "Gold Coast" is an expensive part of McLean. See e.g., http://www.wfp.com/listing-showcase/sold-property-details.asp?mlsID=FX8738061

Quit while you're behind.

Can't accept that you're wrong?

No one in DC refers to McLean as the Gold Coast. It is a very well known DC term that refers to the neighborhoods already listed. You are clearly not from here.

No from DC needs to refer to McLean as the Gold Coast. Many cities, such as Chicago, have a "Gold Coast," again stemming from they days of housing segregation where there were few areas where wealthy blacks could live.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in DC, and vastly prefer it to all of NOVA, but, I too have heard of that stretch of Arlington/McLean from Chain Bridge up along the Potomac side on Chain Bridge Road to the GW Parkway called the "Gold Coast" because it is $$$ real estate and overlooks the river. Its inhabited by people like the Saudi Ambassador, Kennedys, and Tech billionaires.

Isnt it possible that both are correct?

+1. I, too, live in DC and have no interest in NoVA, but clearly there can be multiple uses for a term, even if one is older and more "authentic" (i.e. less of a commercial artifact invented by realtors) than the other. It doesn't mean that the other meaning doesn't exist and the poster who first brought it up is wrong and to be embarrassed. The viciousness from the DC posters is as annoying as the constant NoVA boosting on other threads.

it is like saying there is only the Washington "Mall," and that there are no shopping "malls" in Virginia. Two different things with the same name.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in DC, and vastly prefer it to all of NOVA, but, I too have heard of that stretch of Arlington/McLean from Chain Bridge up along the Potomac side on Chain Bridge Road to the GW Parkway called the "Gold Coast" because it is $$$ real estate and overlooks the river. Its inhabited by people like the Saudi Ambassador, Kennedys, and Tech billionaires.

Isnt it possible that both are correct?

+1. I, too, live in DC and have no interest in NoVA, but clearly there can be multiple uses for a term, even if one is older and more "authentic" (i.e. less of a commercial artifact invented by realtors) than the other. It doesn't mean that the other meaning doesn't exist and the poster who first brought it up is wrong and to be embarrassed. The viciousness from the DC posters is as annoying as the constant NoVA boosting on other threads.

it is like saying there is only the Washington "Mall," and that there are no shopping "malls" in Virginia. Two different things with the same name.

What's funny is that this is a pretty good analogy but doesn't support your point at all -- it's like someone coming on DCUM asking where the best hotel is to stay that is convenient to the Mall and a bunch of suburbanites desperately insisting that the poster might just want to sleep close to a Sears in BFE.

[Anonymous]

I've lived in DC for a decade and have never heard of anyone refer to the "Gold Coast" except to refer to Arlington/mcclean by the river.

[Anonymous]

I think of Chain Bridge in Mclean when I hear 'gold coast' too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC, and vastly prefer it to all of NOVA, but, I too have heard of that stretch of Arlington/McLean from Chain Bridge up along the Potomac side on Chain Bridge Road to the GW Parkway called the "Gold Coast" because it is $$$ real estate and overlooks the river. Its inhabited by people like the Saudi Ambassador, Kennedys, and Tech billionaires.

Isnt it possible that both are correct?

+1. I, too, live in DC and have no interest in NoVA, but clearly there can be multiple uses for a term, even if one is older and more "authentic" (i.e. less of a commercial artifact invented by realtors) than the other. It doesn't mean that the other meaning doesn't exist and the poster who first brought it up is wrong and to be embarrassed. The viciousness from the DC posters is as annoying as the constant NoVA boosting on other threads.

it is like saying there is only the Washington "Mall," and that there are no shopping "malls" in Virginia. Two different things with the same name.

What's funny is that this is a pretty good analogy but doesn't support your point at all -- it's like someone coming on DCUM asking where the best hotel is to stay that is convenient to the Mall and a bunch of suburbanites desperately insisting that the poster might just want to sleep close to a Sears in BFE.

Another DC poster here. What's funny is that nobody was "desperately insisting" that OP should look in VA. There was an honest confusion due to multiple uses, and people have only (rightfully) insisted that there is a VA neighborhood sometimes referred to by that name. That's not the same as "wanting everything to be about VA", that's clearing up where the first PP was coming from. You may not like the commercial usurpation of the term, or Northern VA (I don't, particularly), but that doesn't mean that anyone who has only heard of the VA use is an idiot who deserves to be ridiculed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC, and vastly prefer it to all of NOVA, but, I too have heard of that stretch of Arlington/McLean from Chain Bridge up along the Potomac side on Chain Bridge Road to the GW Parkway called the "Gold Coast" because it is $$$ real estate and overlooks the river. Its inhabited by people like the Saudi Ambassador, Kennedys, and Tech billionaires.

Isnt it possible that both are correct?

+1. I, too, live in DC and have no interest in NoVA, but clearly there can be multiple uses for a term, even if one is older and more "authentic" (i.e. less of a commercial artifact invented by realtors) than the other. It doesn't mean that the other meaning doesn't exist and the poster who first brought it up is wrong and to be embarrassed. The viciousness from the DC posters is as annoying as the constant NoVA boosting on other threads.

it is like saying there is only the Washington "Mall," and that there are no shopping "malls" in Virginia. Two different things with the same name.

What's funny is that this is a pretty good analogy but doesn't support your point at all -- it's like someone coming on DCUM asking where the best hotel is to stay that is convenient to the Mall and a bunch of suburbanites desperately insisting that the poster might just want to sleep close to a Sears in BFE.

Another DC poster here. What's funny is that nobody was "desperately insisting" that OP should look in VA. There was an honest confusion due to multiple uses, and people have only (rightfully) insisted that there is a VA neighborhood sometimes referred to by that name. That's not the same as "wanting everything to be about VA", that's clearing up where the first PP was coming from. You may not like the commercial usurpation of the term, or Northern VA (I don't, particularly), but that doesn't mean that anyone who has only heard of the VA use is an idiot who deserves to be ridiculed.

You must have missed all the racist and profanity-laced posts that were removed yesterday if you think that nobody was "desperately insisting" that Gold Coast only refers to VA, or even the PP's that are still up insisting that the term "has always been McLean." But don't let that stop you from lecturing!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am not advocating for any position and personally don't know the answer, but I do wonder why upper NW around 16th would be called the Gold Coast. It is a nice enough area I guess, but hardly what one would normally associate with that name. Historical artifact? Something else? Genuinely curious.

The area isn't really "upper NW" -- that's west of the park, over in the Red Line trajectory. That stretch of 16th St is where many of the most well-off African Americans in DC settled in the mid- to late-20th Century, which is where the name comes from.

True. And it's everything but a "gold coast" in 2016. It's a second-tier zone at best.

OP, what are your main criteria to select a neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in DC for a decade and have never heard of anyone refer to the "Gold Coast" except to refer to Arlington/mcclean by the river.

Same here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC, and vastly prefer it to all of NOVA, but, I too have heard of that stretch of Arlington/McLean from Chain Bridge up along the Potomac side on Chain Bridge Road to the GW Parkway called the "Gold Coast" because it is $$$ real estate and overlooks the river. Its inhabited by people like the Saudi Ambassador, Kennedys, and Tech billionaires.

Isnt it possible that both are correct?

+1. I, too, live in DC and have no interest in NoVA, but clearly there can be multiple uses for a term, even if one is older and more "authentic" (i.e. less of a commercial artifact invented by realtors) than the other. It doesn't mean that the other meaning doesn't exist and the poster who first brought it up is wrong and to be embarrassed. The viciousness from the DC posters is as annoying as the constant NoVA boosting on other threads.

it is like saying there is only the Washington "Mall," and that there are no shopping "malls" in Virginia. Two different things with the same name.

What's funny is that this is a pretty good analogy but doesn't support your point at all -- it's like someone coming on DCUM asking where the best hotel is to stay that is convenient to the Mall and a bunch of suburbanites desperately insisting that the poster might just want to sleep close to a Sears in BFE.

Another DC poster here. What's funny is that nobody was "desperately insisting" that OP should look in VA. There was an honest confusion due to multiple uses, and people have only (rightfully) insisted that there is a VA neighborhood sometimes referred to by that name. That's not the same as "wanting everything to be about VA", that's clearing up where the first PP was coming from. You may not like the commercial usurpation of the term, or Northern VA (I don't, particularly), but that doesn't mean that anyone who has only heard of the VA use is an idiot who deserves to be ridiculed.

You must have missed all the racist and profanity-laced posts that were removed yesterday if you think that nobody was "desperately insisting" that Gold Coast only refers to VA, or even the PP's that are still up insisting that the term "has always been McLean." But don't let that stop you from lecturing!

I may well have missed the posts that were removed. Please quote a current post that says it has always (and only) been McLean. I only see people who say that is the only use THEY have ever heard of, again in an effort to demonstrate that both meanings are valid. That is not the same thing as saying there is no DC "Gold Coast".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My wife and so are moving to DC and an acquaintance suggested we look to rent in the "Gold Coast" area for at least a year before purchasing a home. Which neighborhoods and zip codes comprise the Gold Coast. Any information you can offer to help narrow our search would be great our budget is $2800/month, we have a 4-year-old son.

Does everything have ro be about the same old topic? Gold Coast has always been Arlington and McLean. Like it or not.

Here you go. And since sarcasm is apparently lost on you, please do let this stop you from lecturing.

Jesus the lengths people on DCUM will go to to deny the existence of and try to erase any evidence of African American influence on this city is exhausting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived in DC for a decade and have never heard of anyone refer to the "Gold Coast" except to refer to Arlington/mcclean by the river.

Same here

You're not black.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My wife and so are moving to DC and an acquaintance suggested we look to rent in the "Gold Coast" area for at least a year before purchasing a home. Which neighborhoods and zip codes comprise the Gold Coast. Any information you can offer to help narrow our search would be great our budget is $2800/month, we have a 4-year-old son.

Does everything have ro be about the same old topic? Gold Coast has always been Arlington and McLean. Like it or not.

Here you go. And since sarcasm is apparently lost on you, please do let this stop you from lecturing.

Jesus the lengths people on DCUM will go to to deny the existence of and try to erase any evidence of African American influence on this city is exhausting.

Ok you're right, there is one! That still doesn't excuse the nastiness (even if disguised as sarcasm) right off the bat against anyone who brought up VA. But I see now that this is all about racial animosity (in both directions), so I guess rational argument is a lost cause. Sorry I didn't realize this right away, I'm from Europe!

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I have lived in NoVa for over 20 years, and I don't think I have ever heard N Arlington/McLean referred to as the "gold coast". I have heard that area (plus Potomac, Bethesda, and Great Falls) referred to as the favored quarter rather more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My wife and so are moving to DC and an acquaintance suggested we look to rent in the "Gold Coast" area for at least a year before purchasing a home. Which neighborhoods and zip codes comprise the Gold Coast. Any information you can offer to help narrow our search would be great our budget is $2800/month, we have a 4-year-old son.

Does everything have ro be about the same old topic? Gold Coast has always been Arlington and McLean. Like it or not.

Here you go. And since sarcasm is apparently lost on you, please do let this stop you from lecturing.

Jesus the lengths people on DCUM will go to to deny the existence of and try to erase any evidence of African American influence on this city is exhausting.

Ok you're right, there is one! That still doesn't excuse the nastiness (even if disguised as sarcasm) right off the bat against anyone who brought up VA. But I see now that this is all about racial animosity (in both directions), so I guess rational argument is a lost cause. Sorry I didn't realize this right away, I'm from Europe!

Trying to tone police a discussion you don't even understand is not "rational argument," but don't sprain your elbow patting yourself on the back.