You picked a lousy place to retire to. I visited Atlanta twice. It was a while ago and I was there for training sessions about 10 miles north of the last stop on MARTA. The area was growing fast and the roads had not kept up with the population. I took one look at the narrow streets and the incessant traffic and thought, "what a hell of a place to ride a bike". I noticed on my way to classes in the morning and back to the hotel in the afternoon that I could walk nearly as fast as the traffic was moving. I've always considered traffic as one of the things to consider wherever I chose to live. If you can't drive a car with ease, you sure can't ride a bike either.