Please clarify. I am constantly getting recruiters desperate for me to take a job in VA (as well as the entire ring from VA to TX, and of course, my Midwest).
The national unemployment rate is a full percentage point below what Humphrey-Hawkins full employment act defines as full employment and the point at which inflation is unacceptable even to those who favor inflation. Immigration and outsourcing are big precisely because American companies cannot find enough American workers. Here in Illinois that is certainly true. Parts of Ohio and Michigan have unemployment problems precisely because they have pretended for 50 years that the laws of economics didn't apply to themn.
But Virginia? That is hard to believe.
It's a very rural area. The primary local employment base used to be in textiles and furniture. Both have all but vanished in the last 10 years. I'm glad I got into the IT field, but such jobs are very few and far in between in this area. I'm lucky I found a good job here, and wasn't forced to relocate.