Ask HN: Is being remote affecting your job search?

For the last couple years good arguments were made to move to a lcol location and work remotely.

The golden ticket was to pull this off with a faang / faang adjacent company - make Bay Area SWE wages while living in Nashville.

Now that the job market has drastically changed, do you see living in these places where you have to primarily rely on remote work posing a challenge to finding work? Do people in the hcol tech hubs have a significant advantage or is remote work the new normal so the playing field is more or less level?

Interested to read your thoughts and experiences.