I can get a job paying >250k in Seattle, but am unable to find six figures back home in the Midwest. There's not enough remote work yet, most companies hiring

I can get a job paying >250k in Seattle, but am unable to find six figures back home in the Midwest. There's not enough remote work yet, most companies hiring won't do it :/. Maybe this will change in the relatively near future, but when I look at my in-laws in northern China who have CS degrees and work for like $10k USD a year, I'm thinking maybe remote work will not be upwards lifting to US salaries... I'm not going back now because I realized that -20F ~ 95F annual temperature swings really suck (I did not realize this until I left).