ICYMI: Online Travel Mag Mocks Wellesley

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 Wellesley...

“Wellesley has long dealt with an identity crisis. All the other schools in the Bay State Conference sneered at the Raiders, imagining a town populated entirely by the yuppies from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, even if that wasn’t always totally true. Although now, with its Downtown’s fancy rebirth and scores of smaller homes knocked down in favor of McMansions built to the property lines (I’m looking at you, Pilgrim Rd), it might be true. Great sandwiches at Linden, though!”

What do you think? Is Wellesley struggling with an identity crisis or is Thrillist just being jerks?