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> 99% of these jobs are city based and require you to relocate. Why? If my work is all done on the internet, why can't my commute be aswell? Why should I have t

> 99% of these jobs are city based and require you to relocate. Why? If my work is all done on the internet, why can't my commute be aswell? Why should I have to constantly migrate when I have a perfectly good and happy place to live out in the country? Why isn't remote working catching on more? This has been my experience as well. I moved from the Bay Area back to a place in the US with more a reasonable cost of living (in the same time zone as family). Local jobs have no clue what market rates are, or even how to hire competently (no work samples, or technical problem solving). When I try to look for remote work online, companies in both NY and the Bay Area stop the conversation when they find out I'm not willing to move. Even Hired.com, which has a location checkbox marked "Remote", asked me to delist my profile until I am willing to relocate. How do you all go about finding remote work?

nine_k 12y ago
As a sibling comment says, it's a pain to be in a significantly different time zone. Try to emphasize that you'll be always available at the prospective employer's local time, and will be able to spend time in the office once in a few months if necessary. Also, try to contact companies that already have remote workforce and a remote-work policy (like github).
- rwmj 12y ago
  .. and Red Hat. Distributed team, with members in the US, all through Europe, China, Japan and Oz. We work entirely over email, IRC and a weekly Google Hangout.
toomuchtodo 12y ago
https://weworkremotely.com https://weworkremotely.com https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote In my case, I answered a HackerNews job posting.