It's been 10 years since I left Virginia for Oregon, but my interest in this article is the reminder that rural counties depend on the tax basis of urban counties, but how COVID is upending this situation

Nothern Virginia is ‘at a critical crossroads,’ which means rural Virginia is, too
The economy of the state’s biggest economic engine is changing. What happens in Northern Virginia will reach all the way to Southwest Virginia.
cardinalnews.org
