I'm in atlanta right now, going to ga tech. I hate that ****ing school. It's not exactly liberal arts so you're in the clear. but I like atlanta alright. However my perspective may be skewed because I'm still a bike newb and atlanta is the only place I've ridden, but it seems like it's about 3 miles to anywhere I want to go, but it is pretty expensive. I have a 5 bedroom house in midtown across from campus for like 1850 or so. But I am looking for a place to go once I graduate so this thread is helping me as well. However I've heard atlanta's at the bottom of the list for good places to ride, so you may want to consider that too. And the schools here, well, I don't know much about the liberal arts here. There is the atlanta college of art and design, but I think SCAD's taking that into it's fold and I don't know how good they would be at writing either. And it's like 2.75-3.50 PBR's and 5-8 guinneses. if that gives you an idea of the cost of living.