You would think a lab tasked with creating a virus would be located somewhere isolated

I want a large population of highly educated well-paid professionals to congregate in a campus-like laboratory setting, but I don't want any commercial infrastructure to spring up around this hub of public investment and salaried staff. Also, please make sure none of these people get married, have kids, and want any kind of recreational activities, because then we are FUUUUUCKED.

Let's try to do this with literally any University town in any city in the world and see how far we get.