Was this a union shop? One of the comments after the article mentioned the high cost of water in the area as being the reason.
I am almost 99% certain Breyers is a union shop. Sad.
They don’t really mention it directly, but Framingham uses the MWRA for its water supply (Massachusetts Water Resource Authority) and it is one of the most nepotistic, union crony, bureaucracy encrusted entities in the state. I agreed with the efforts to clean up Boston Harbor (which really, REALLY needed it) but everything does have its price, and the increase in the power and bureaucracy of the MWRA is one of them.
Additionally, Framingham has been turning into a third-world pit for the past twenty years, and that transition is nearly complete. You would never walk through the downtown at night now, and driving through it is unnerving. Streetlights out, bars on windows, hookers, dingy buildings and trash on the streets, one of those places. It used to be a nice middle-class town, safe and clean. No more.
If I could leave this state, I probably would. I love the area, the history, the climate, the geography and such, but I hate seeing the cumulative effects of 50 years of liberalism having real effects now. It is like watching someone die slowly from cancer. Every day, another company leaves, and the electorate continues to vote in people like Deval Patrick.
My wife does not see things the same way I do, and I doubt she would ever leave, so...I am with her. For better or worse...I stay with her.