You pretty much summed up GA in your post. If I wasn’t here I’d be in Texas or Florida (in that order).
Atlanta is the largest connecting airport in the world and you can live 40-60 minutes from it in some of the safest counties in the U.S.
As long as you don’t live IN Atlanta your political stance will fit right in.
I’m not a Falcons fan, but we did just sign Kirk.
I'll second the recommendation on the Atlanta area.I will check that out! Never even thought about GA. I also love me some history so being on the east coast I would have a ton of things to see.
I haven't lived there but I did spend two weeks there in 2018 and I loved it. My personal views are to the right but I'm also very much a city dweller so none of the BS bothered me. Atlanta has an excellent downtown, lots of art all over, beautiful scenes at night. I found a coop with all the healthy food and supplement products I use, an LA Fitness within 10 minutes of our AirBNB, and heard about a lot of gyms in the suburbs. Make sure you check out Fox BBQ and their beef ribs!
In Atlanta the climate isn't too extreme, you've got the busies airport in the world, you've got professional sports teams - you've got everything you could want from a world class city.