Its quite frustrating as a Canadian web-developer. There are plenty of remote jobs that I would qualify skill and experience wise in the US that are for 120K USD. But they won't hire remote Canadians because its a hassle for some reason.

There are few Canadian companies that are remoting and generally they cap out at 70K. There are higher paying remoting jobs in Canada but to get them you have to do in-person networking to secure them.

I'm from Thunder Bay originally and honestly would prefer to live someone cheap but I'm forced back into the GTA because people want to have their head over your shoulder.

The only way to get about the 70K cap was to run my own firm, which brought in lots of money but was quite the chore to keep stable.