How about physical office jobs in your area? Have you applied to those? Remote is tough these days but willing to butt in the seat for 8 hours with a 2 hours commute might put food on your plate and buy you time.
This would be my recommendation too. The global talent market for remote developers is extremely competitive. The days of failed offshoring seems to have passed, it's now much easier to build excellent remote teams but it is driving down salaries.
I'm afraid that's my current takeaway of the situation as well. Not sure if that is really the case though. It would be nice to hear about different experiences.
Apparently, after remote was "the new normal" and "worked extremely well", now nobody wants it anymore for ... reasons?
I think it was only the new normal in certain sectors/countries for a period. Now I see mostly hybrid and after 3 years remote I now have the expectation to go in 1 or 2 days a week. Would at least look at this initially, then after you get in you can push for less.