Wellesley wins Boston Magazine’s Swanky Town Smackdown

Boston Magazine March 2012

Wellesley has once again fared well in Boston Magazine’s Best Places to Live rankings, which are highlighted in the magazine’s March issue.

More specifically, Wellesley is named overall winner of the magazine’s Swanky Town Smackdown, which pits Wellesley vs. Brookline, Lincoln, Weston and other such communities. Among the things the magazine says Wellesley has going for it: “lots of shops and restaurants line a central artery,” Morses Pond and Hunnewell Arboretum. The median home price in Wellesley is listed at $880,000.