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[quote=Anonymous]	I think you will regret not having access to a private swim club. Some of my best memories from when my oldest was little are playing our dolphin games in the pool. When she was four, we moved to an area with only a public pool. My husband said the public pool was “fine” and I had no experience to disprove him. I learned a few things. First, the public pool got so overcrowded that they literally closed the gates and would not allow anybody else in. Meer mortals could rarely swim. Secondly, there was no continuity in who you’d see there, meaning that people played dangeriously rough, or just acted like assholes. Think “Johnny, Billy is little please don’t splash him in the face” and Johnny’s mother saying to you”Why don’t you find another pool, we came here to have fun…, you don’t tell my child what to do”. The moms who couldn’t care less what their kids were doing suddenly swoop down on you when you dare to convey some good behavior lessons to their little darlings. This is on a day when you happen to have learned the names of the particular asshole. The normal “If you don’t behave, we can’t come back” doesn’t work because nobody cared about coming back. They had no friends or social customs or traditions that interested them. I also felt that the lifeguards were not as well trained or as observant as they should be . With private pools, you see the same folks again and again. People want to get to know you if you are at all personable. I was surprised how much I missed having access to a swim club. It’s a great way to spend time on a summer evening and on a random Saturday when you can’t think of something else to do. The cost may be steep, but it sure beats spending money to fix a marriage that got into trouble in large part because we had very little family activity or opportunity to socialize with other families. Swim clubs are wonderful for this purpose. I’d urge you to give it way more then a year given that getting back into that swim club could literally take years.   [/quote]

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