Well I am originally from Albany, GA, have lived in Lakeland, which is basically Valdosta, Lagrange, GA, and now Columbus. Well, i can tell you this. If you want to have mosquito's and gnats, move to Albany or south like Valdosta, if you want to have very minimum of them live in Columbus or more north. Columbus aint too bad, Atlanta is a pain in the @ss, to much traffic, 1st hour of the news is on killings, rapes, and robbery's, all and all too many people in one place. Columbus is considered 2nd biggest in Georgia next to Macon. Either is decent. Good place to live, im 4 hours from beach, straight shot, and 4 hours from TN mountains. Oh and uh, you have a good audio shop here that carries SI, IA, and few others hahaha....