Online Travel Mag Mocks Swampscott

By Barry Thompson and Brooklyn Lowery

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 Massachusetts towns.

Here’s what Thrillist had to say about Swampscott:

“Like Marblehead, but with smaller boats and more crew-neck sweatshirts.”

And, since you’re probably wondering, here’s what they had to say about Marblehead:

“The boating-town version of that really pretty girl in high school who knows she’s really pretty but can’t even muster the fake modesty to object when people call her pretty.”

What do you think? Did Thrillist’s assessment make you nod, smile or shake your fist in defense of your town?

Photo by George Allen