> If you're not good at written communication, or you work with people who are not good at it, remote work will be miserable.

I had a pretty poor team leader a few years ago with a bums in seat type job. He would never write anything down and teh result was quite frustrating. The spec used to change frequenty and he would come and verbally tell me it. then he would change it again, then again. A week or two later when I actually got around to implementing teh said feature I would ask him what he wanted done,

"I thought we talked about that." "Yes we did but you changed your mind 4 times and I can't remember what the conclusion was."

I used to regularly ask him to put things in writing, but he was usually to lazy to deliver on that.

So I don't think these problems are unique to remote teams.