SUMMER 2008
Cheap
Living...
OPIA’s Guide to Affordable Housing, Transportation,
Food, and Fun in Major Cities for HLS Students
Spending a Summer Working in the Public Interest
Published by:
Bernard Koteen Office of
Public Interest Advising
Harvard Law School
Pound Hall 329
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-3108
Cleveland
Cleveland Table of Contents
Housing
2
Transportation
2
Groceries
3
Eating Out
3
Entertainment
5
Weekend Getaways
7
Congratulations! You’ve gotten a great
public interest internship. You’re ready for
the challenges and rewards of your job, but
are you ready to move to, navigate, and
enjoy a new city on a modest salary?
It can be difficult to live cheaply in some of
the world’s most expensive (and exciting)
cities, so OPIA and the 1L Public Interest
Section Representatives have put together a
guide to give you a few tips on how to get
by (and have fun) on a public interest salary.
We’ll tell you how to find safe, inexpensive
housing, get around in the city, eat out or in,
hang out, and explore the city’s cultural
offerings. This is our 14th edition of Cheap
Living. For summer 2008, we updated
guides for the following major U.S. cities:
• Atlanta
• Boston
• Burlington, VT
• Chicago
• Cleveland
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco
• Washington, DC
We also updated:
• International Travel Planning
And added a new Guide:
• London
If you’re working in another city, check with
OPIA to see if there is an edition from a
prior year.
In compiling these guides, we relied on
numerous sources: our own experiences,
law school career service offices,
newspapers, the Internet, and especially
Harvard Law School students. The
information in Cheap Living is meant to be
helpful, not authoritative. No doubt, we
have missed some stellar bargains. By
listing a feature in the guide, we do not
mean to endorse it, other than to say that a
student like you has mentioned it as a great
deal. Cheap Living remains a