You shouldn't feel too bad about remote jobs. My job was one day remote before COVID, but at the start of pandemic we went 100% remote and I love it after four years. In fact they are trying to bring us back to the office and that would be the worst thing that could happen job wise.
So try looking for remote positions, or contracts, we had people from Turkey working for us remotely and it was no different than people from East Coast of US.
The whole company is remote if they want (even before Covid) and I work remotely often if I need to. But, I don't get anywhere near as much value out of it, and I am very good with remote facilitation :)
It depends on the type of work though.
What I find is that the people who are fully remote struggle to get fully engaged. If there are no relationships with colleagues, everything is transactional and that bores me.