People who love remote work seem to be senior, well established employees who were already fully ramped up and had a social foundation in SV before the pandemic. I left my entire life behind after college to relocate to SV; I loved working with talented engineers and gained so much experience and mentorship in 2019. But remote work was isolating and lonely, mentorship went to zero, and it has caused me a lot of stress realizing that remote work is never going away. It was very sad, but I had to leave SV behind to find a career with people who cared about my success again, rather than preferring remote work for themselves at the expense of less experience engineers having to ping and zoom for every question, with less authentic relationships being formed. Remote work might seem like employees vs the boss, but there are people like me who actually loved their jobs, and now can only do them through a screen alone in a bedroom.