Within the laws of the location of the employer. That's why state and sometimes even local laws matter.
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Alleghany County is extremely red, Covington has a large paper plant which has a nasty smell, and Clifton Forge has a massive coal train terminal and is the most depressing place I have ever been.
Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Charlottesville contribute as well, but basically if it's not a city or the suburbs of one, it's red as a sunburn.
Virginia still has cheap areas and is a blue state thanks to the DC area and Hampton Roads, but the cheap areas suck and don't necessarily have broadband access or mobile coverage.
Virginia is roughly purple. The General Assembly is hung (one house majority Republican, the other majority Democratic), and the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general are all Republican.
The DC area is ridiculously expensive ($1 million or $2500/month is quite possible). I can't speak to Hampton Roads.
The city of Richmond, most of Henrico County (not Varina), Charles City County, and part of Chesterfield County are blue. Charles City County is cheap but good luck getting a phone signal with certain carriers or getting internet access. Glen Allen, Short Pump, and the West End (all Henrico County) are all pretty expensive as well but less so than DC.
Even FedEx, UPS, etc will hand over packages to USPS if they think after a certain point it's unprofitable for them to deliver to that address.
They also have their own federal pension plan.
The developer of the MMORPG Eternal Lands wrote two articles about how to manage a game's economy.
https://eternal-lands.blogspot.com/2008/03/mmorpgs-economy.html
https://eternal-lands.blogspot.com/2008/03/mmorpgs-economy-part-2.html
He's working backwards from "I want every country that was east of the wall to be part of Russia". Any flimsy excuse will do, even if it's complete and utter bullshit because those in Russia who call him out on it get arrested at best.
Or any state willing to extradite him to Georgia.
A puddle of skunk urine then.