It is really amazing how stupid people are.
Manufacturing in MA is pretty much dead, except for maybe a handful of companies and a bunch of small shops, I dont think there are many major manufacturers left.
Springfield is far from everything. Young people don't want to be there, there isn't a big pool of skilled labor for other industries to want to move there, getting to all the major cities and airports s*cks. It is a sh*t location for a city in the 21st century.
So you would think; low skilled labor, cheaper housing, already a company that hires something like 700 people in that world, why not give manufacturing an incentive to come to Springfield, lower wages out west go further.
keep all the high tech, bio tech, finance and education in Boston, manufacturing out west.
Instead, we drive them away. Because f*ck jobs, who needs those and the tax revenue they generate.