Anybody Interested in Living in Georgia (for a Year, at Least)?

these places have yards

another place had a three car garage unattached to the house and 3 acres of land for $1,000.
(photos of this showed it dark and dingy inside)
garage is probably as big as the back room at Sidewalk Cafe

photo is the $675 house--which is close to an awesome granite mini-mountain you can walk/hike/run up and down where deer walk sometimes

it's not a house you built and/or own
it's not in the woods or the country
but it's closer to it than NYC

I just emailed two friends about going to Georgia and renting a house for a year.
After a year we can stay or come back or whatever.

No apartment.
A house.
Like I said, there are 3-4 bedroom houses on land for around $1,000 a month.
busses run to and from atlanta
big park there
(stupid confederate carving on the side of the grqanite mountain, but I could not see it form where I lived and the mountain itself is beautiful)

To each their own indeed.
As far as this particular small town, I had no car and was fine.
I also could have walked around the corner and bought coffee.
I could not have gone to the guggenheim and the used book store was permanently closed.
As an artist that makes noise, I have questions about whether my worry and holding back volume-wise has led to my significant loss of vocal power over the last 5 years.
The neighbor issue is partly why I gave up my admittedly sporadic flute playing.

I loved running up a mountain and picking watermelons and cucumbers out of the yard I shared.
I am not the kind of person that appreciates a lot of artificial external stimulus.
The trees, the dirt, the deer, the hills, the moss, the wild berries, the space, the quiet, the privacy and ability to make noise are all pretty cool to me.

I came back voluntarily, and I understand why others may choose to live here.
I went to Sidewalk last night and saw about 25 great songwriters in one room.
I also have searched for an affordable room to rent for two weeks now with no luck.
I make under $1,500 a month, yet emailed a woman about an $800 room. (She never got back to me.)
If I am to continue to sing--or if I am going to be in a band, we will have to rent space to rehearse--not cheap.
I am more suited to live somewhere else than maybe some people are.
I also can transfer to any of 100s of other branches of the company I work for--provided they need someone and I am willing to take a paycut in most cases.

So, I totally agree with you.

PS I totally am of the opinion that relationships are what is important--that and being where you can be of most help in the broadest sense of the term.
I'd rather live in a concrete maze and have meaningful deep kind relationships with other people and animals than live in the country and be mean or unhelpful.
What I was originally hoping is that people I knew and liked would move to the country so we could have the wilderness externally as well as internally.
Whether that is ever meant to be or not remains to be seen (or it may be meant to be for a year, then not for a year, etc.
I haven't a clue.)