It’s very anecdotal of course, but it’s just not true that nobody finds jobs online anymore.
Data points for the interested reader: fullstack web engineer, L5-L6 level, UK.
Your mistake is that you expect the job to pay for housing, and that the housing is available in the surroundings of the job. There needs to be some brutal EU-wide legislation preventing hoarding of real state and making it a miserable investment.
Overall I agree, nobody is hiring right now.
Homeowners are a powerful voting bloc and do not want this. Many EU states also have excessive rent control, which creates another powerful voting bloc who also is opposed to any change in the housing market.
There is only ever one problem that makes housing too expensive: zoning restrictions that make it illegal to build huge volumes of cheap housing. There's a huge amount of evidence to support this, and very little evidence to support any other theory. Even in towns with a lot of tourism and AirBnBs, the problem is a lack of hotels (which are almost always superior to paying a cleaning fee and then having to clean your room yourself).
That is the entire goal of interest rate tightening. To impoverish the masses until much lower wages are finally considered "worthwhile."
Look at the incredibly strong and quick knee-jerk reaction in 2021 to enhanced unemployment schemes as soon as the vaccines went out. Employers wanted to hire at the same low rates of pay, but couldn't find enough workers of sufficient quality, so all levels of government treated this as a policy emergency: they cut unemployment, they cut food stamps and many social programs, they lowered the legal age at which you can work at all, work dangerous jobs, and work overnights, and the Federal Reserve illegally defied its mandate to maintain full-employment first, and then a *3%* inflation target when it jacked rates up very quickly.