Get a Spa
Have owned a house with a pool for 33 years. If I added up all the days that I have actually been IN the pool it would probably amount to about one year.
When the kids were pre-teens they used it some, and had friends over, usually for a birthday party.
Sometimes we had pool side cookouts, like the 4th of July, and maybe someone would get in the pool.
It could be pleasant to sit beside the pool at twilight on a Summer evening with no lights except the pool lights casting their blue-green light against the pool screen.
But............. on more than one occasion I have seriously considered either tearing it out or filling it with dirt and making it into a garden. Maintenance can be expensive. And, if you own it long enough you will have to have it re-plastered, which is expensive.
If I were just starting out, I would opt for a very nice spa, and go to the neighborhood pool when I wanted pool time. Even the spa will require close regulation of the chemical balance and other attention.
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