Almost five years ago, my wife and I sold our business and our dream home in Arizona after 26 years of being away from our beloved South. We were retiring and, after working in metro Atlanta twice for eight years and loving North Georgia, we did an exhaustive search of the inland South, mostly in the foothills and mountain areas of North Georgia, and we chose Gainesville to build our new home in which to spend our retirement years and moved here almost four years ago, feeling we had picked the Promised Land.