[ilovemyglo]

I'm from Louisville, KY and have friends/family throughout the south including TN, AR, GA, SC, FL.
I would definitely look at Nashville and Louisville-
Although Louisville is located in the "northern" south, it is a great big little town.
You get the KY Derby and all that jazz, but prices here aren't too high-my FI and I bought a 5 bedroom three bathroom house for less than $200k in a nice area. The school system here is tiered- so if you have gifted children they go into the gifted system and by high school get college credit. Not only that but all of Jefferson County is open- so say you don't like your "home" school for your kids, you can apply to put them in any school in the system.
There is also a large private school sector. Louisville is strongly Catholic, but many nonCatholics go to the Catholic private schools. I actually went to Catholic schools til 5th grade when I switched to the public schools. There are also other programs such as the "traditional" program not sure what is different but I know it is a much more structured program.

Crime here isn't bad, especially for an area with 1.5 million people around it. You are also 2 1/2 hours from Indy, and Nashville and 1 1/2 hours from Cincy.

Not sure if that helps any.

Also, I just got back from Myrtle Beach- I have no desire to ever go there again. I cannot believe that is a tourist location (my best friend lives in Florence SC and we went for a day). It was dirty, the people were rude and gross and the service at the restaurants was despicable!

Anyway, just my 2 cents. Jefferson County Public Schools is the district if you want to look at it.