ICYMI: Online Travel Mag Mocks Dedham

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

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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 Dedham...

“Trying hard to cling to that blue-collar past even though everyone there now shops at Legacy Place and works in tech. If you happened to grow up there during that blue-collar past, chances are you’re Italian, only refer to your friends by their last names, and played baseball with Josh Police.”

What do you think? Is Dedham a quasi blue-collar town at this point or is Thrillist just being jerks?