Look..it`s not like you are doing an 8 to 5 job. You won`t be commuting in and out every day. Also forget Rome, Chattanooga, Gainesville....too far away. If you have kids, I suspect that you will be placing them in public schools. If so, then it`s East (or west) Cobb County, Cherokee County to the north or Peachtree City schools to the south. P.T. City is in Fayette County. DO NOT buy where you will have to put the kiddies in Fayette County schools. Avoid Clayton County. I strongly suggest that you rent someplace for 6 months or a year until you get the lay of the land. Avoid anything inside the permeter (I-285). The Atlanta area is like a lot of megaplexes, lots of good stuff and lots of bad things also. When I arrived here 40 years ago, the area population was about a million, It`s now more than five million. Lots of folks like it here, you will too!