What are the best cities to live in near Atlanta, GA?

My finace and I are planning on moving to the Atlanta area within the next year or two. We have 2 very young children and we are an inter-racial couple and want to feel safe and fit it. Any recommendations?

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1. hmm....i'm going to copy an answer i gave someone else... first off, there's commute to consider. Atlanta has the worst commute in all the cities I've been in. downtown isn't really a good place to live. that's probably the most "unsafe" place to live. the suburbs in Fulton County are really affluent and somewhere you could look into. living "Inside the Perimeter" (area within our 3 major highways), is worth its costs. we have a MARTA system which is like the BART in Northern California or the New York City Subway. make sure you're very accessible to the exits by the MARTA stations placed along the highway. cities to look into (mostly in Fulton County): Alpharetta College Park Duluth Johns Creek Milton Roswell Sandy Springs for an even lower cost of living, look into places in Forsyth or Gwinnett county, which are just as safe. as for schools, any county in Metro Atlanta has top rated schools except Clayton County, which recently lost accreditation.
2. I would definitely recommend practically any city in Gwinnett County. It is about 45 minutes or so from downtown Atlanta, but it offers so much in the way of safe living and is a top area for schooling. Since you have 2 small children I would unduly say to look towards cities like Snellville, Lawrenceville, Loganville. These have some of the top school in the state, most notably Brookwood schools. These cities have been on the extreme commercial boom in the last 10 years. And also Atlanta area jobs are only 45 mins away, did I mention that?