I lived in Georgia for six or seven years. I stayed mostly in the suburbs of Kennesaw (North West Atlanta) but I had family who lived in Marrietta, Smyrna, Acworth, downtown Atlanta, and Buckhead (basically atlanta's version of Wallstreet). I'm not particularly a big city type guy. But I really liked it, always something to do. Atlanta folks aren't as weird as random with topics of conversation that NYC people are. It has it's own spice. If I had to live in a major city it would be Atlanta or Boston. Only thing I couldn't stand about Atlanta were the summer scorchers. 100% humidity, 100+ farenheit, and the smog.