RE: If you won the lottery.....
I would move back to North Ga and buy a mountain. The whole thing right down to the valley.
Then i would find a legal way to protect it from any kind of sub divison or development after i died. At least then there would be at least one piece of land undevolped in North Ga. The way its going up there now it will be subuarbs from Atlanta to Chattanooga before long.