Really, really depends on what kind of experience you want. Hipster/Boho? Little Five Points or Inman Park. Upwardly mobile yuppie urban? Midtown/Buckhead. Wife + 2.3 kids with access to hills and lakes, a clean vector out of town, and no real budget? Northside suburbs (watch out for traffic). Same but with a budget and don't want to deal with as much traffic? PTC or Sonoia. College town? Auburn or Athens. Small town life? Rome. Want to drive to work, drive home, forget about Delta on your days off and be on semi-budget? Macon.

Truth is that after COVID, a lot of people left ATL proper, but the real estate market still went nuts. People cashed out their million dollars of equity in town and drew a circle about 90 minutes around ATL, and drove all the prices up in the towns inside that circle. Prices in town never really dropped. Point is, just about everywhere within 120 miles of ATL is over priced for what it is, you just need to decide how over priced you want to pay, and how much traffic you want to deal with. This is softening somewhat as businesses are tightening their belts somewhat, and calling people back into the office. Whether they go or not is still up for debate.