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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only 3 months use? Really? I grew up in an area where the summers were shorter than around here, and we'd go swimming May 15 to September 15, easy (4 months). With some extra days in April and September if it was sunny and in the 80s. Here, I've always wondered why community/apartment pool season was so short (Memorial Day to Labor Day), when it seems like that shuts out two dozen or more "pool days" on either side -- I always figured it was because of limited lifeguard availability and liability rules, not because people were afraid of a little cold water.[/quote]

There's no way you can regularly swim in an unheated pool around here before mid-June.  And heating a pool is crazy crazy expensive.  I'll give you September 15, but even still that's a huge liability, hazard, expenditure, maintenance hassle, and eyesore that you're not using 75% of the time.  For some people it might be worth it but, I've looked at houses with pools and I'm always mentally subtracting the cost of filling it in from the asking price.  [/quote]

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