This is so true. You can't really expect us to be actively looking on job sites for every city and expect us to find you.

Sites like freelancer is full of highly questionable jobs with low pay.

Hacker News and whoishiring.io has been a valuable resource to get my resume out there. I'd definitely suggest getting your stuff on each of those sites. In an ideal world, indeed would have a remote section, but they didn't last I checked.

Anyways, OP, it really depends on the developers you are looking for. The strategy for finding FTE and contractors are different, from the search to how you interview, how you deal with them as a worker, to your expectations.