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If you are attending UGA Athens would be a great small town to live in. If you aren't a UGA student Athens has nothing to offer you. The town exists soley as support to the school, the student body and faculty.
Most of the small towns near Atlanta (you didn't say how close) have that suburbia feel to them since that is exactly what they are. Suburbs of Atlanta. Marietta is nice. Decatur is real nice, it's also very close to Atlanta. There is also Duluth, Norcross and Lawrenceville. Suwanee and Buford. All of them Suburbia but with town centers and their own identity.
Further south there is Milledgeville, another small college town. Jackson and Macon. Newnan to the west is a very nice small town. So is Peachtree City.
Or you can go north into the mountains. Small towns there are Blairsville, Jasper, Dahlonega, Gainesville, Canton, Ellijay, Blue Ridge and Clayton