You get use to it, it's beautiful here year round. And it's not that bad, it's more like freezer for 4 months.
This pond is my happy spot during the summer and it's 2 streets over and I live in a city that's next to the biggest city in the state. Are cities have woods and tons of them, beyond low crime rate and pretty nice people.
The only way I could get used to that is if I won a MegaMillions lottery. We have a 3BR/2BA home, just under 1400 sq ft; .27 acre lot; 2 miles from the center of Lawrenceville, the county seat of Gwinnett county, which is just 20-25 miles NE of Atlanta -- we paid $60k for it in 2011; our taxes are just over $1k a year, and our insurance is about the same. A house up the street exactly like ours but reversed, sold for $125k last year, as the economy has rebounded.
Winter is mild, almost non-existent, really just a long extension of fall until spring (with rare white exceptions). Summer lasts from May till October.
Trees??? There's an infestation of Great Horned Owls and Barred Owls around here, and plenty of squirrels, raccoons, and even coyotes. At our last house we rented, in the north end of Lawrenceville, we regularly saw Golden Eagles, and I once saw a 10 pt buck IN MY FRONT YARD.
Andria
ETA: and can't forget about the possums! Awful things, they look like hairy rats!

They end up as roadkill a LOT.