24-year-old American lives on $1,700 a month in the Japanese countryside, pays $238 in rent

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Lexi Smith moved from Atlanta to Japan to teach at an eikaiwa, or an English conversation school, where she has 1:1 or 2:1 classes with both kids and adults. Her youngest student is two years old and her oldest is 73 years old.

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