I grew up in Michigan but I've been living in Georgia for the past six years, and Athens for two. I love Athens personally. It's pretty small and a good hour away from Atlanta, but it's a total college town with plenty of things to do. You should make a visit sometime just to see the campus and the city. Oh, and I keep telling myself the reason I haven't found out about being accepted or rejected yet is because they want to offer me an assistantship haha. Pushing it, but might as well keep my hopes high.