Looking for a town in N. Georgia for a move. (Rome: low crime, new home)

[Effigy Farms]

Looking for an educated safe town in Northern Georgia to move to. We work from home and like privacey.
Would like country club, hunt club and or yacht club close. Would like some acreage with a private lake/ pond.
Planning to come out next month and drive around checking out areas.
We are in Los Angeles now and lived a lot of our life in Detroit/ Pheonix area. I have lived in Huntsville, AL and traveled/ enjoyed the south.
we are done with the Traffic, pollution and crowds in LA.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and Time!

[LovinDecatur]

Gainesville, GA (Chattahoochee Yacht Club)

[irishvanguard]

You might try Rome, GA and the Rome Sailing Club (Silver Creek). You will get more land for your money than anywhere around Lake Lanier. And Gainesville has a little more reputation for crime with the chicken-house laborers around.

[irishvanguard]

You might try Highlands, NC, in the mountains just over the GA border. The town is small, but has expensive shops and galleries (you can't discern this from a video done while driving)
YouTube - Highlands

This area is quite scenic and wooded, and property may be rather expensive.

The Highlands Yacht Club sings the national anthem to kick off its annual regatta here:
YouTube - Highlands Yacht Club National Anthem

Alas, the yacht club is renowned mostly for its lack of boats.

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by irishvanguard

You might try Rome, GA and the Rome Sailing Club (Silver Creek). You will get more land for your money than anywhere around Lake Lanier. And Gainesville has a little more reputation for crime with the chicken-house laborers around.

CYC is on the "better" side of Gainesville, I believe.

[Effigy Farms]

Thank you this is so helpful, I am so glad this sight and everyone is here!

[lastminutemom]

What do you mean by educated?

[RedWhiteBlack]

Tiger or Clayton,Ga i live in clayton and love it, we have a golf course/country club not 3 miles from town, tiger is the smaller of the 2 towns with maybe 300 people but its less than 4 miles from clayton, which has everything you need, a new home depot, super walmart numerous restaraunts and awesome people, very low crime.Just a hope skip away from north carolina and south carolina as well.

[juliehaley]

I agree with RedWhiteBlack. The Rabun County area has gorgeous scenery, a small town feel, and beautiful sites on numerous lakes. Although not private lakes, one can easily find a private setting in the mountains or on the lakes in this area.
Very few residents, but a large amount of money flowing around that area. So, you have the upscale rural setting, not the "Deliverance" style rural setting. Even though many of the river scenes in the movie Deliverance were actually filmed on the Chattooga River in this area! Good luck with your move. My parents recently moved from the Huntington Beach area and were amazed at how far a housing dollar goes and how far you can actually travel in one hour's time!

[RedWhiteBlack]

Wow nice to see someone not far from me on here. yeah i am all to familiar with that movie being filmed here, i see bumper stickers and shirts saying row faster i hear banjos. it was so funny the first time now its becoming annoying lol.