Well. Well. A Griffin girl. How old might ya'll be. Slim chance I might know your wife. I graduated HS in '83. Left for good in '96. Worked at Dundee after college till transferring with them to North GA. I agree about living and raising kids there now. It was never a "small" town but was pretty good in my day. by the time my niece got to the HS, it was very dangerous. I haven't been back thru in quite some time.
I worked in Augusta for a bit. Have no use for it. Just not a good place. and it must sit in a bowl depression cause the summer weather is stifling. Evans and Martinez seemed pretty decent if you had to live there, but they are basically just neighborhoods across the interstate.
Savannah I could do, but the summer would take some adjustment. Most of choices would be above ATL as well, although there are some nice middle GA areas.