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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had never heard of DC's gold coast, only the one in Chain Bridge- that name always stuck with me because it's high on the bluff along the coast of the Potomac and made sense as far as the name.[/quote]

Rivers don't have 'coasts'.  They have banks, bluffs, even shores. Not coasts.  In English, at least in America.

The usage for real estate (as opposed to African places that export gold)  is very loose (even for Chicago) and need not be associated with a body of water, which is why I think the gold coast in DC is called that.   Though I don't here that name much anymore either - but never for the Chain Bridge area in Va - but I live in Alexandria.  Maybe this is something only used in the area itself?  Or only by realtors?[/quote]

Or maybe it gets used by realtors, and then picked up by journalists writing about real estate, and then repeated by people who read what the journalists write...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2015/06/08/former-home-of-alexander-haig-returns-to-the-market/?utm_term=.a1605bd33544

https://www.washingtonian.com/2008/07/31/luxury-homes-august-2008/

http://washingtonlife.com/2007/06/01/the-2007-wealth-list/2/ 
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evidently.

Three citations, of which two are from 2008 or earlier. Two of the three are real estate columns.  The third is from a mag I've never heard of that focuses on the wealthy.

Which might explain why did not see them when googling on "gold coast virgina" In fact references to colonial era virginia and the african gold coast come up earlier. In contrast to googling on gold coast DC, which brings up lots of links to stories about the 16th street area.

So its a really obscure usage, mostly in high end real estate circles, versus a fairly widespread, if somewhat old fashioned usage. [/quote]

Fair enough, but what's your point? The question has been all along whether another usage exists at all, and whether therefore the person who thought OP meant the area just across the river should be embarrassed or not.  I think that is all PP was trying to prove.[/quote]

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