I have found that with covid and everything going offline there are a lot of companies looking for remote workers, and that has opened the door for people from all over the world. A recruiter friend I have said that they used to get 0-10 applications when it was partial remote partial in office because the people had to live close enough. Now that it is all remote it isn’t unusual to get 400+ applications from all over the world. Many of them are trash and point to their fiverr gigs etc, but just gives you an idea how online jobs are really going worldwide and it is harder for people who used to have a geo advantage now that there are so many full remote jobs.