3. "RE: Help me with my research"
In response to message #1
Yeah, "the correct coast" is often about as accurate as you can hope for.
The project this is part of started with my suspicions that a bunch of commercial VPNs are lying about which country their servers are in, and fortunately they turn out to be really blatant lies, like "it's labeled as Kerbleckistan but really it's in a data center in the USA", so "the correct coast" is good enough.