Online Travel Mag Mocks Waltham

By Barry Thompson and Charlene Arsenault (Patch Staff)

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,” which 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 Waltham:

“WATCH CITY, SON! A fun pastime is watching the look on out-of-state Brandeis freshmen’s faces when they realize they’re not actually in Boston and will spend most of the year eating cheesesteaks at Carl’s and going to Bertucci’s for birthdays.”

What do you think? Is Waltham struggling with an identity crisis or is Thrillist just being a jerk?