Then start looking online or start your own business (using Elixir because it is the easiest and least money-expensive for a single developer) and stop blaming the whole world. Internet is everywhere. So, if you can't move to a bigger city to find Elixir jobs, look for the remote position, working from home is pretty normal for at least a year now. Or, as I said, start your own online projects using Elixir. Again, using Elixir and its ecosystem is the easiest for a single developer. To be honest, people who operate in the Elixir ecosystem are often much better programmers (and thinkers; a much welcomed side product of functional programming) than JavaScript people where the quality of code is usually much worse. But it's partially the problem of JavaScript where it's easier to write bad code. And Elixir is much better especially for big projects than JavaScript. Maintaining a big project in JS vs Ex? Elixir is much much better at that. Programming things in JavaScript is torture. In Elixir it's pleasure. It's like the improved version of Ruby, very nice language.
Yeah, I don't get it. I've worked remotely with Elixir for several years from an non-tech oriented Eastern European... And these days it seems like more than half dev jobs are remote first.
Trying a new language or framework is fun experiments that you spend a few hours on. I have been enjoying implementing Message DB[0] in a hobby project. My current job is not in programming, and not looking for one.