How close does he want to be to downtown and does he want to be around a lot of black people? Douglasville is 20 minutes west of the city and has a good mix of people. If you coming from a city up north though that would be considered the country. A young person isnt going to find much to do in the immediate area.
Once you start going south, like south of that is considered the southside (College Park, East Point, etc) then you hit Fayetteville, Newnan, McDonough, and Stockbridge. Now those are some country spots that black folks are just now starting to pop up in, lots of old white people bit the houses have good prices and you get some land with them too. Too many houses now in the A dont come with shyt land wise.
In those areas i named ive seen people get 5 bedroom 3 bathroom homes, +2500 square feet for 150k foreclosed and 190k short sale. Nice ass homes.
But if he coming from out of town he would want to be near the city i guess. Im too old for that life now so thats why im more focused on the outskirts.