Yes, this is very true. You have to be willing to lose your current employer to do this. No bluffing. For those who are even thinking of bluffing e.g. along th

Yes, this is very true. You have to be willing to lose your current employer to do this. No bluffing. For those who are even thinking of bluffing e.g. along the lines of "lying" about "I will quit if I don't get a remote position" or "I am going to move", please don't. For the former, your credibility will be shattered if you they turn you down and you stay. For the latter, if you don't move, it will be even worse if it turns out you weren't ever planing to move. Also, you don't need to move to get a remote job (you might just have a horrid 1.5hr with traffic/15 mile commute from the outlying suburbs into the city center where the office is).