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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]FWIW that area along Potomac Ave is in DC Palisades. Sometimes when I would name my neighborhood, people would think I was referring to some place up in MD. I never got in a tizzy, just acknowledged that there must be more than one. [/quote]

There is more than one! There's a big high rise in downtown Bethesda called the Palisades, and also a neighborhood off MacArthur just before Persimmon Tree known as the Palisades. But they are much lesser known than the DC neighborhood, in the same way that the McLean/North Arlington Gold Coast is much lesser known than the neighborhood in DC.[/quote]

The Gold Coast of McLean is not lesser know and let's not act like it is out by ashburn, the Gold Coast touches DC on its western boarder. It is closer to many of the nicer areas of DC like Georgetown, spring valley and the whole river valley such as the mall. I don't find it surprising that the one small pocket of legacy upper middle class African Americans in the city up by Silver Spring might not resonate with most residents where the strip of some of the finest homes in the city in DC's most geographically stunning location might.[/quote]

I am not black. I am white skinned (dark hair though) and all my grandparents came from Europe. I have lived in NoVa since I moved to this area.  However I do not live in the so-called NoVa Gold Coast, and I do spend a fair amount of time in DC, and I have an interest in local history and geography. And I have lived in this area over 20 years.

I have never heard of the Chain Bridge area being called the Gold Coast any time before reading this thread.

I am at least vaguely aware of the 16th street area being called the gold coast.

And again, googling, shows many references to the DC area.  Almost none for the NoVa area.

Not every area that has elite homes is called a gold coast.

Part of it may be that the last major discussion of the "gold coast" in the main stream media was when Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce under Clinton, and quite affluent black man, lived there.  Newcomers since have not seen it in the media.  So they go by whatever someone tells them (I once heard someone claim that St Michaels was on the Western Shore - he got shore and coast confused - bays have shores, land bodies have coasts - its the eastern shore of the chesapeake, western coast of the Delmarva - not everything some uninformed person says is correct).

But again, the problem with the first response to OP was not that she thought there was another gold coast - it was how definitive they were.

"its not what you don't know that makes you a fool, its what you know that isn't so"

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So you are pretentious but still ignorant about local real estate. Nothing to be proud of there.[/quote]

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