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I doubt middle america is going to benefit much from this. Once a company has bitten the remote workers bullet there are far cheaper alternatives that hiring a SWE in Ohio. There are huge numbers of highly capable devs right across the border in college towns in Mexico and farther south in multiple South American countries. All on US time zones and working at a fraction of the price of a US developer regardless of their location.

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I have unironically considered moving to, say, Montevideo. It has better weather than where I live (India), is close to the east coast time zone, and I could very easily make much more than most SW jobs here by getting an Americas-only remote job. Only downside would be living far away from family, and having to navigate immigration when I'd not actually be working for an Uruguayan company.

True. Why hire an American dev for remote work?

Timezones. It’s hard enough scheduling meetings across multiple timezones (and boy are there a lot of meetings in FAANG), but going more than +/- 6 is a huge pain (I meet with east asia and europe on a fairly regular basis).

ggp is specifically talking about Latin/South American companies, which have approximately the same time zones as the US.

What makes you think people won't start working with US timings if they get enough money for it?

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