Visa and plane ticekts starting out

coming over early January (yes I know we’ll be there in CNY and won’t find a job right away)…

I’ve found much cheaper tickets if we fly RT from Seattle to Taiwan on Jan 22, then out to Hong Kong or Okinawa on June 30 (about as long as we plan on staying for now) than flying back to Seattle…

questions then:
should I go for these tickets? i figure we could always ditch the end ticket if we stay longer than 6 months, decide to leave for somewhere else, or decide to come home…

is it more expensive to get tickets home (to seattle) when in taiwan?

what’s happening these days with visa runs? where are people going? the other choice would be to get a sea-tpe-hk/okinawa ticket for only about two months and then use that leg to kh/okinawa as a visa run… but then we’d need to buy a RT ticket from hk/okinawa to taiwan and maybe that’s more of a headache then it’d be worth… whaddya think?

and oh yeah… what do you think the job market in taichung is like right now? girlfriend and i are coming over, both want to teach, have a friend in taichung teaching right now so we’re planning on living in that city, bringing about $4k US between the both of us… any other advice?

thanks!