Ha, reminds me of a story of a front-end developer from my (mostly Poland-based) team who is working remotely from Brazil: https://netguru.co/blog/working-with-people-you-haven-t-seen
The Timezone thing is also a really big deal too. PR is the same most of the year and just one hour off Nov-Mar. I do not ever see myself waking up at 5:00am for meetings.