New York City and New York City real estate have a way of focusing the mind -- this is a tough town, as you might've heard, and an interesting one. For those of us who care about NYC and the market for NYC condos, the ebbs and flows of the Manhattan real estate scene can come to seem like the most important news in the world. If you're searching Manhattan condo listings, it might well seem like it, but the national real estate market is plenty interesting in its own right.That's the reason -- well, mostly it's that we sometimes like to ogle North Carolina mountain homes and South Carolina golf homes, but also that -- why your New Construction Manhattan blogger often finds himself checking in with Southeast Discovery, a full-service real estate site serving, yes, the Southeast. The idea behind Southeast Discovery isn't really all that different from the one behind New Construction Manhattan -- where we aim to put NYC dwellers in the right Manhattan condo in the right Manhattan neighborhood, Southeast Discovery looks to do the same for people looking for golf homes, vacation homes, mountain homes, and so on in states from Tennessee to Georgia. No, Southeast Discovery's listings don't have quite the subway access or Central Park views that New Construction Manhattan's condo listings do. But they sure are purty. If you need a break from Manhattan real estate and want to, say, check out golf homes on Sea Island, Georgia or Reynolds Plantation, a beautiful lakefront community in Georgia, this would be where to do it. Here are our current most crushworthy Southeast Discovery communities:

• Tellico Village, near Knoxville, Tennessee
• Jonathan's Landing Real Estate, Florida
• Oldfield, in Okatie, South Carolina
• Vista at Bill's Mountain, in Western North Carolina
• Cedar Creek, near Aiken, South Carolina
• Catatoga, on Lake Toxaway in North Carolina
• Balsam Mountain Preserve, in Sylva, North Carolina
• Reynolds Plantation, Lake Oconee, Georgia
• Ocean Ridge Plantation, Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Gorges at Lake Toxaway in Western North Carolina
• Grey Oaks Country Club, near Naples, Florida