A construction supplies salesman who'd lived all his life in Michigan, Charles J. Kramb took a shine to Georgia after someone recommended Callaway Gardens as a vacation spot. When holiday time rolled around, Mr. Kramb and the family went there. They did it 15 times over the years, said his daughter, Anne Marie Ziem. Then in 1983, when the Michigan economy made living there untenable, he made it official. The family moved to Georgia. Not only was he a part of suburban Atlanta's population explosion, but with a new building supplies business, he spent his second career making a home for it. "Michigan was in a recession," Ms. Ziem said. "Nothing was going on, building wasn't going on. We had always come to Callaway Gardens for vacation, and he loved Georgia. He thought he might come down here and look around and see if there was a place he wanted to live."