First question: do you want to be an offline pilot ever or just a salty old line pilot?
If you want to go offline in the training department or management or do day trips, I highly suggest the south side of town which basically means the top of the perimeter and south. You can find whatever you want from Elizabeth Warren 2016 stickers inside the perimeter to "Don't Tread On Me Jeb Bush" stickers to the south. South of the airport is probably the easiest drive and most bang for your buck. Doing the drive from up north of the perimeter to the airport every day will make your head explode.
If youre fine just being a line pilot who bids trips that are >=2 days, it's great up here. Me personally. I live up in Cumming.
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Pacific, I live in Forsyth County where it nears John's Creek, Gwinnett and North Fulton. We are not that far from Lake Lanier if it matters. I rent boats there, cheap during the week where you literally own that lake to yourself. On a weekend, death by being run over is inevitable.
I can go either I85 or GA400, both are exactly 55 minutes with no traffic, 1:30 with morning traffic (and I have an alternative route via Buford Highway to 285 and east around the loop) and 1:30-2 hours in the evening depending on what time you start. Bad times for either is 6:15am-10am M-F and 3pm-7pm M-F. Otherwise, full speed ahead. You can save yourself some headache on I85 using one of them "Peach passes" and basically travel in the HOV lane for a flexible toll. At a minimum I leave work 2 hours early, for a 10am show, I leave 3 hours early. I'm basically on the road while my PTC Captain is still asleep.
There are a lot of pilots up here (north of the perimeter and in between I75 and I85), but if you go to the gas station in full costume on the way to work people are going to notice you because it's abnormal. But none of the pilots I know have ever said "traffic is so bad I want to move south". If that says anything, traffic can be hell but we all have no intention of moving. Schools and amenities are really good, Zillow will guide you through that process.
I sat reserve up here for 4 or 5 years and never had trouble getting to work although when I was asked once "how long til you get here" and replied 1:30 at a minimum (middle of traffic) I think the guy said "prank call!" and hung up. I've gotten out of trips basically and probably lost a few white slips or green slips over it. But most of the time "they'll be waiting for you and I will notify your Captain" is what you hear... but fwiw they never notify the Captain.
If you live up here you need to live 50 miles from the airport so you can still have a hotel during training.
Right where I am they're simultaneously building 8 neighborhoods at a minimum of the upper 300s, it's insane. It's very international where I am and that is driving the construction and also driving schools to have higher test scores and thus driving the housing market further up. Basically, a 4.2 GPA is rather unremarkable because you're in school with some kids who go 6-7 days per week. I'm not a fan of public schooling but as far as I know 97% Forsyth schools meet or exceed Georgia standards vs 77% on average state wide, you basically have some of the best schools in the state... but the state is still... Georgia. To the north the county is more of a mix of suburbia and rural. Basically, like everywhere, the better the schools the more you pay and vice versa.