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[quote=Anonymous]When we were house hunting about 4 years back, my husband would only look at houses with pools (or where we could easily install a pool) -- he grew up in a neighborhood in Montgomery County in a house with a pool and wanted to live in a house with a pool.  Not being an at-home pool person myself, I left this decision up to him.  Four years later, after living in a house with a pool, here are my thoughts.

A pool is wonderful (particularly in this weather -- in fact we spent most of today in our pool), but, of course it is an added expense.  It is not that expensive, however, and th amount of the expense depends in large part on the age of the house/pool.  Our kids are aged 4 yearss old and a 2 years old, and we do not worry about them drowning because they are not allowed in the back yard without us (plus we have an alarm on the back door and you can have an alarm installed on the pool to alert you if anyone has "fallen" in.)  Obviously, if you live in a house with a pool, you will teach your kids to swim early in life (which is what we are doing) -- again, I do not see this as a reason not to purchase a house with a pool.

We have never experienced what the previous posters metnioned about friends rushing over to use the pool.  In fact, we belong to the neighborhood pool, as do most of our neighbors and friends.  We love to invite friends over for a BBQ (and a swim) but we do not have people/kids hanging out at our house just because of the pool.

I have to admit that it helps to have a husband who grew up with a pool (meaning that he already knows what to do with maintenance, etc. and essentiallly takes care of everything), but as someone who inititally DID NOT WANT A POOL, I really enjoy it (as do the kids) and I think as they get older it will just get better (cannot wait until they both know how to swim on their own!).

Bottom line - if you will use the pool, I think the added costs are worth it.  If not, then the added costs are not worth it.[/quote]

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