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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

+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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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![/quote]

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