Not to mention that schools will give you an air ticket at the end of your contract, so reapplying for your visa back home isn't a huge deal.

In fact, if it gets rid of many young unwashed neck beard English teachers, it will totally be worth the minor inconvenience.

IIRC, they only give 7,000 rmb or so or sometimes less towards the cost of the airticket itself. My first college did book and pay for it for me though, and an FAO who I was friends with, helped me get one from Shanghai when I went home once, using her credit card, and then I repaid her. In the middle east, the ticket TO and BACK is paid for and arranged by the employer.

What on earth is a neck beard, something a "hipster" would know about? Much like nonce, never heard anyone but you use this term before. You are certainly an eccentric young scouser fellow my lad, are you not?