Ditto on the schools as everyone else. As a side note, my Mom is a retired school teacher and my sister is a current teacher. They both hate the teaching system. We are planning to home school or send our kids to private school if we can figure out a way to pay for it.
I live in Metro Atlanta. Affordable (< $200,000k), relatively safe neighborhood housing can be had in the suburbs, which means if you plan to work for a large corporation, you'll be commuting.
What does your commute look like now? In Atlanta, many people spend 30 - 120 minutes commuting everyday.
What do you do? Perhaps you could target your search based upon the prevalance of jobs in your field. Most of the big corporations are in Downtown Atlanta, Buckhead, Alpharetta and Dunwoody. Most people on the boards here wouldn't live in downtown, can't afford to live in Buckhead, Dunwoody or parts of Alpharetta.
I commuted to downtown for 5 years, Dunwoody for 4 years and half way acorss my county another 5 years. If you wonder what it would be like to commute everyday in Atlanta, try driving thru Atlanta on a Friday afternoon. Take any of the following highways: I85, I75, I20, GA400.