ICYMI: Online Travel Mag Mocks Brookline

Editor’s Note: This was originally posted on March 10.

Image Credit: Town of Brookline website

By Barry Thompson and Mike Bednarsky

There’s nothing unusual about having a love/hate attitude about your hometown. Of course, some people lean harder toward the dark side of the spectrum than others.

Online travel and food magazine Thrillist published an article titled “Does Your Boston Suburb Suck? An Investigation,” that mixes good-humored ribbing with fairly tasteless slights from former (current?) Boston suburbanites. For better or worse, it critiques a substantial portion of Eastern Mass. towns.

Here’s what Thrillist had to say about Brookline...

“It’s the city-suburb compromise for Boston couples wealthy enough to have a conversation about city-suburb compromises. Your T line dictates more specifically what you’re looking for. The closer you get to St. Mary’s on the C, the more likely it is that you got a regrettable tattoo when you were younger.”

What do you think? Is Brookline a stuffy cultural hybrid or is Thrillist just being jerks?