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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The history of those pools is absolutely rooted in segregation. Maybe it’s changed, but when I bought a home in south Arlington 10 years ago I looked up getting on the waitlist of Overlee ( i think). I wasn’t allowed to sign up, because my address wasn’t acceptable. I lived near Nauck at the time. 
Serisouly.[/quote]

I don’t think any of the private pools have neighborhoods that can’t join, but some do give waitlist preference to the neighborhoods within close proximity (at least one is near enough to SA that a number of neighborhoods are in the geographic preference area). We live in SA and had preference to Arlington Forest. I think the SE part of Arlington is out of luck because the only private pool in that area is part of the Army/Navy Country Club, which costs significantly more than the other private pool clubs that don’t include golf. There isn’t another private pool or pool/tennis club in that area. You’ll have the new aquatic facility close to you, but it’s indoors and the fees won’t be much that less expensive than the private pools in NA from what I have heard. [/quote]

NP, but the history of private pools in the South (which VA definitely is), is rooted in Segregation. When public pools were no longer legally allowed to keep black people out, public pools closed and private pools opened - because the private pools could discriminate.

There's a reason there are so few public pools, and its not a nice one.[/quote]

+1 This. Our extremely popular pool opened in the early 1950s.

Now it’s about economic segregation. [/quote]

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