Which pool to join?

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever one is attended by the most families from your elementary school/school cluster (so kids will have friends there).

I agree with this - we're not in McLean, but we're close and we have friends from kids' preschools at Tuckahoe, Kent Gardens, and Poplar Heights all of whom were trying to convince us to join their pools. Any of them would have super fun when our kids were little, and we're still close with those families, but we ultimately joined our neighborhood pool (Poplar Heights) and I think it's a lot more fun for the kids because there are ALWAYS people they know there.

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Our pool doesn't allow alcohol. No one checks though.

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool doesn't allow alcohol. No one checks though.

What??? Nuts.

Which one is that?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there so few public pools in VA?

There’s a terrible history of white people creating private pools so that they could exclude Black folks from swimming. Here’s just one article about the phenomenon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/10/americas-swimming-pools-have-a-long-sad-racist-history/

And that pretty much continues with the private pools...

I’m a white person who lives here but is from another area. The private pools feel very segregationist to me (still).

at this point they reflect the people in their neighborhoods who want to join. At our pool, some houses are deaded with memberships, but everyone is on a wait list and it goes in chronological order. Membership is restricted to the zip code the pool is located in

Not in Fairfax County. Where are you?

Eastern Fairfax

No idea what that is supposed to be in relation to a swim club. All of the ones mentioned to OP you can join from wherever. Chesterbrook, Langley, Kent Gardens, Tuckahoe, Highlands, GF, can't think of the others off the top of my head. None are restricted by zip or deeded. Wait list, get summer membership, then full.

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Pick the one closest to your house so kids can walk there when they get older.

If your kids are still young I would worry less about swim team rankings they can change as the years go on. Although the more wealthy areas tend to have the better teams because that is the crowd they draw from.

Of the ones OP mentioned, Kent Gardens is my least favorite because it is a very small space.