I mostly agree with you, but as somebody in the industry, no local jobs ≠ no jobs.

People will move in. I get messages on LinkedIn regularly from people who want me to move to Memphis, Texas, and other shitholes that are only popular because they're cheap.

And they employ at least a couple dozen.

I'm in his district and while Connolly was more left wing then I would expect for a very upper-middle class district dominated by government workers, it still pissed me off that he beat AOC for the position in the oversight committee.

I guarantee this person would complain if you took away their right to vote