I suppose there are a lot of other factors at play here as well. You probably still have other physical developer friends, while I'm self-taught and graduated f

I suppose there are a lot of other factors at play here as well. You probably still have other physical developer friends, while I'm self-taught and graduated from an unrelated field. My friends aren't technical. I hate commuting as well, but I also feel super unsafe in my country. An acquaintance of mine was running an educational platform online teaching basic and advanced blockchain development courses; their offices were raided because our federal government's investigative wing saw "Bitcoin". Every RTI requires a lawsuit to compel compliance. And so on.