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[quote=Anonymous]Repeating what others have said:

- Your brother has a very weak background to move to DC. 
- DC is not a city you go to when you are looking to find a job. You come here because of a specific career.  
- DC does not have many sales/marketing type generic jobs. People in marketing, by way of example, likely have a top degree in political science, spent a few years grueling on the hill, and move to political marketing.  Very different than what you describe for your brother. 
- The types of jobs he might get here would be very low paying.  Hourly. Unpaid internships. That kind of thing. People are willing to take pittance to work in DC because it leads to better things (see point above about marketing job).  But those people have a definite career track. Not worth pittance wages to just get a job.  The non-DC type jobs (i.e., those that your brother would be looking at) pay the same as smaller, lower cost of living places.   
- You are writing this on behalf of a mid-20s brother. Why isn't he writing it?  DC is filled with type A personalities and this tells me your brother is not going to do well in this city.  If he was a real go-getter, despite the above bullet points, maybe.  But he sounds like just a dude looking for a new life.  
- Sure, he can get a $30k a year job somewhere in DC.  But that is a TERRIBLE life in DC.  Just terrible. Read all the threads on this and the real estate forum. people live in this terrible, expensive city because they are tied here for their jobs.  You don't come to DC because it's a nice place to live.  If you can work elsewhere, work elsewhere.  
- Move to Tampa, or Pittsburgh, or Baltimore, or Madison. Or somewhere with moderately okay jobs.  They'll have a much happier life than in DC.

PS in case you didn't get the message, don't move to DC.  
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