Trilogy and Del Webb both sit on Lake Oconee, a few miles apart, in the same Greene County tax bracket. The overview guide tells you the amenities are similar. It doesn’t tell you how that choice plays out ten years in.
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Talk to a Specialist →Trilogy at Lake Oconee is Shea Homes’ roughly 600-home resort community in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia — golf included in an HOA of about $350/month, on the same Lake Oconee corridor as Del Webb Lake Oconee. Greene County’s effective tax rate of approximately 0.72% is among the lowest of any county with a major 55+ community in the Atlanta market. Here’s how the decision to buy here plays out year by year.
In year one, every Trilogy at Lake Oconee owner fields the same question from visiting friends: “why not Del Webb?” The honest answer is that both communities sit in Greene County at the same ~0.72% effective tax rate, both have golf and lake access, and the real differences are builder (PulteGroup’s Del Webb vs. Shea Homes’ Trilogy, smaller and more boutique), campus scale (Del Webb’s resort campus is larger), and social culture (Trilogy tends toward more intimate programming per unit). Buyers who visit both before deciding report fewer year-one regrets than those who pick based on brand name alone.
By year five, the distance from Atlanta — 75–90 minutes from downtown — has either become a non-issue because you built a self-sufficient life around Lake Oconee, or it’s become the thing you underestimated at purchase. This is a retirement destination choice, not a suburban Atlanta alternative, and the buyers who are happiest at year five are the ones who understood that distinction going in rather than assuming Greensboro would feel like an Atlanta exurb.
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Ten years in, Greene County’s tax advantage over higher-rate Atlanta-area counties has compounded into real, if unglamorous, savings — the kind of number nobody mentions on a golf-course tour but that shows up clearly if you add up a decade of $1,000+ annual gaps against comparable communities. At this point, the golf course you chose, the clubhouse culture you settled into, and whether you and Del Webb neighbors down the road are still comparing notes matter more than the original brand decision ever did.
Buyers who want resort-style 55+ living on Lake Oconee with golf included, Shea Homes construction, and Greene County’s tax advantage tend to be glad they chose it a decade later — provided they went in clear-eyed about the 75–90 minute distance from Atlanta being permanent, not a phase. It rarely suits buyers who need to stay tethered to Atlanta metro life.
Tax rates, HOA fees, and comparative figures are approximate and can change over time — confirm current numbers with Greene County and the HOA/builder before purchase.
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