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Everyone who visits Brunswick remembers the "smell". The locals call it the "morticians wind". The breeze in the morning comes off the ocean trending west-northwesterly and the stack plumes from Hercules and Brunswick Paper and Pulp head over the city and out. In the afternoon and into the evening the breeze heads easterly toward the ocean. On cool days distance, dilution and temperature make it rather faint on St. Simons. This is one of the reasons St. Simons is a preferable place to live.

The area to include Brunswick and St. Simons is not very large. A morning commute from St. Simons offers very scenic marshes, marinas, waterways and wildlife. Its no different heading back. Rush hour? Forget it.

St. Simons has a large transient population. Summer is the high season for Georgians. You might hook a year lease on a rental home if you find one during the winter when vacancies are the highest otherwise there are plenty of apartment complexes all over the island. I would prefer St. Simons over Brunswick handsdown!! Personnally, I have always thought Brunswick was pretty much a dumpy town. Granted, its got a small Victorian historic district, downtown area and even a small shrimp dock and new city marina, but what gets ya is that damn smell! Brunswick has seen no major growth since I left it back in 1980!

FLTEC is northwest and a world unto itself. Its a huge complex shared by an industrial center and airport and aways from the center of the city. Call it the burbs perhaps.

By the way the Geogia coast is very hot and humid and a huge change from the arid climate you have in New Mexico. The transition from winter to summer has but a few days of spring inbetween!!

Go for it.

Bob