Your situation is complicated. I think you should file a part-year Pennsylvania and part-year Virginia return with the break coming when you switched to a Virginia-based employer even though you continue to own a home a PA and rent an apartment in VA.
Why? Your “tax home” changed. The IRS says:
Generally, your tax home is the entire city or general area where your main place of business or work is located, regardless of where you maintain your family home. For example, you live with your family in Chicago but work in Milwaukee where you stay in a hotel and eat in restaurants. You return to Chicago every weekend. You may not deduct any of your travel, meals or lodging in Milwaukee because that's your tax home. Your travel on weekends to your family home in Chicago isn't for your work, so these expenses are also not deductible. If you regularly work in more than one place, your tax home is the general area where your main place of business or work is located.
Related Resource:
Topic No. 511 Business Travel Expenses
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