There's quite a marked difference between the cost of living in Virginia, and West Virginia, as we're about to see. Neither of them pushes through the $70,00 mark, but it's definitely more expensive to stay in the original state than its western neighbor. You're looking at something like $21,000 for food and housing here. Virginia is often referred to as 'the birthplace of the nation' because of the founding of Jamestown here. It was the first English colony in the United States of America.
Virginia is a defiant state, which has a habit of clinging on until the bitter end! The final surrenders in both the American Revolution and the Civil War both occurred here. No less than eight former Presidents of the United States of America have been born in Virginia, hence the state's nickname of 'The Mother of Presidents.'