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[jammish]

The OP has a B.Ed. That makes her better qualified than most people posting here. She should ignore all this advice to get 6000 rmb blah blah blah, and look to much better positions. She could possibly get something at an international school, or try for the Net scheme in Hong Kong.

[Gregor]

Vikdk and jammish are both quite right, viovio. Particularly vikdk, regarding the hours you'd be asked to work. If you're with your husband, you could likely work a way so that one of you could always have the kids (but maybe not), and child care is not that expensive in China, and it can be really quite a lot more trustworthy than it is in the US, anyway. Holy hell, I wouldn't have a kid in the US unless one of its parents could be with it at all times!

Anyway, yes, you might be able to do better than 6000RMB/month. But it's a decent starting salary for getting into China. Do it for a year while scoping the place out, maybe learning a bit of the local language. Nevermind how much you can make. How much more or less is 6000 RMB/month compared with what you make now? (That's roughly 745 US dollars/month.) And how hard is it to live on your salary in Chile?
6000RMB could support your family all by itself. If your husband is making as much, then you'd be well-off.
THEN go around looking at what else is available.
Just a thought.

[viovio]

Well, I was offered 3600RMB, not 6000 RMB.
I now make almost 700000 CLP which is about 1300USD, but if you add up daycare, rent, bills, food, health, I used to spend almost 2000USD

[viovio]