These Gen Z besties started planning to travel the world at 11. Teaching English in China helped make it happen

Sonia Holland and Erin O'Brien, both 26, pay about $570 a month for their spacious two-bedroom apartment in Guangzhou, China.
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I moved to China from the US to be a teacher. My $4,000 monthly salary went much further, but there were tradeoffs.

Tatiana Smith spent five years teaching English as a second language in China. She lived in Beijing mostly, which was much bigger and busier than her hometown in Illinois. Smith said the cost of ...
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I'm an American teacher in China. I can't see myself going back to the US to teach.

I'm an American living in Shanghai. I've been a teacher in China for the last seven years and have no plans of returning to the US. English has been a required subject in school since 2001. For a ...
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I moved to China from the US to be a teacher. My $4,000 monthly salary went much further, but there were tradeoffs.

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations and emails with Tatiana Smith, 36, who spent five years teaching English as a second language (ESL) in China. The following has been edited for length ...