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MS would be the worst option if you like outdoor stuff (hiking, lakes, whitewater) in my view.
Given you probably won't see many comments about MS on here, I'll mention that the Madison suburb of Jackson looks really nice. My brother was considering taking a job with a power company there a couple years ago and I checked it out on Google maps street view.
I lived in Huntsville Alabama for 1.5 years and it is a nice area. There are little mountains next to the downtown.
Beside Atlanta, South Carolina has way larger metropolitan areas (Columbia, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte suburbs). SC offers a lot more than “just Atlanta.” Has a great coastline and a nice slice of mountains. I’d choose S.C.
Number 2 would be GA
Number 3 Alabama (Huntsville seems nice)
Number 4 Mississippi (The closer to the Memphis suburbs the better if had to)
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Beside Atlanta, South Carolina has way larger metropolitan areas (Columbia, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte suburbs). SC offers a lot more than “just Atlanta.” Has a great coastline and a nice slice of mountains. I’d choose S.C.
Number 2 would be GA
Number 3 Alabama (Huntsville seems nice)
Number 4 Mississippi (The closer to the Memphis suburbs the better if had to)
You also can state that Atlanta offers more than the entire state of SC depending on perspectives.
Beside Atlanta, South Carolina has way larger metropolitan areas (Columbia, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte suburbs). SC offers a lot more than “just Atlanta.” Has a great coastline and a nice slice of mountains. I’d choose S.C.
Number 2 would be GA
Number 3 Alabama (Huntsville seems nice)
Number 4 Mississippi (The closer to the Memphis suburbs the better if had to)
Georgia's mountains are better than South Carolina's. Georgia has a great coastline, too. Savannah is pretty much analogous to Charleston. Really the only coastal thing that South Carolina has that Georgia doesn't is a large vacation/resort city like Myrtle Beach.
Georgia also has Athens, which is arguably the best college town in the country. Nothing comparable in South Carolina.
And actually, SC has access of its own to a biggish metro with Charlotte so you could probably be happy in a SC suburb as well if you wanted a big metro.
Georgia's mountains are better than South Carolina's. Georgia has a great coastline, too. Savannah is pretty much analogous to Charleston. Really the only coastal thing that South Carolina has that Georgia doesn't is a large vacation/resort city like Myrtle Beach.
Georgia also has Athens, which is arguably the best college town in the country. Nothing comparable in South Carolina.
I think Clemson in SC is a better college town. Right on a lake nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. Also has a cleaner look to it and more safe.
I think SC and GA mountains are similar. Good spots to go in both of them and a person living in one of these states can easily visit mountains in the other state.
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