It's more than not seeing a benefit, there's many parts of the US where people rightly or wrongly blame tech salaries plus remote work for pricing them out of being able to afford a home and other basic life necessities. Of course the situation is more nuanced than that in reality but tech workers have a tendency to show up in once reasonably priced areas, buy up houses for cash and drive around in fancy luxury cars, which doesn't help the perception. There's also a perception that much of this money is coming via proximity to wealthy financiers and 15 years of ZIRP rather than true hard work.