Wow Rockstar that's great you're on the way down here! Good luck with the baby delivery. My third boys took 10 hours to deliver the little f@#ker...we still love him though! So I wish you easy happy labor vibes~~~~~~~~
As far as where to look for a place?
I'm from Western NY and have lived in GA for 13 years now. When we first moved here we lived in Buckhead(party town back then) then we moved to Cobb County (smyrna to be exact), we lived directly across the street from AON BEFOR AON was there. Now we're in Alpharetta and I LOVE LOVE LOVE north GA. Alpharetta and Roswell are a little FRU FRU soccer mommish but it's cool even if I get looks at the local walmart. It takes me on a good day 1 hour to get to AON from North GA.
If you have kids then I'd look at the school districts when choosing where to go. Forest Park and College Park and RiverDale are all BAD BAD BAD....that's where I used to visit my weedman when I was a college girl and it's the kind of area you don't want your car to break down in if you know what i mean?
There's a magazine I used to design(shameless plug for a starving artist) called NEWCOMER magazine that shows the population and all the stats to each area of metro atlanta. Here's his link.....
http://www.newcomeratlanta.com/
hope this helps. If not another good place for rentals is the AJC.com site. Or even Craigslist.org
GOOD LUCK!
you will Love living here, best move we ever made and we will NEVER move north again-screw the snow-gimme the sun!
TTFN,
Sarah