> It will just increase the price of living in cheaper area

Also seen by some as the value of their houses rising, which they might welcome; and this only happens if there's some demand from other workers to work remotely from their area, which brings money into the area's service sectors. This could breathe new life into many parts of the country that are currently without any particular reason to go on existing.

I could see smaller townships deliberately incentivizing remote workers and designing things around them as a primary source of monetary influx.