The Clarence Town Pool

July 17th, 2008 News

I can’t believe that this actually merited a news story, (or a blog post - yes, I see the irony).

I would never put a pool in my backyard because it’s a huge outlay of money, dubious return on investment at resale (although I’m not planning on selling anytime soon), and it boosts your insurance rates (attractive nuisance).

So, yeah, we use the town pool and we use the playgrounds at the town parks because I’m too cheap to stick a swingset in the backyard, too.

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4 Responses to “The Clarence Town Pool”

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    peter scott Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    having a pool in the backyard was the best part of my childhood…

    9-7 pretty much everyday…

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    eliz. Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    Ha. One of the best suggestions I heard for Beauty Pools ad copy was “Buy a pool for your kids, you cheap bastard.”

    For some reason, it never got used.

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    hank Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 3:26 am

    Alan–Got nothing to do with cheap. Got to do with a nice public pool, paid for by residents fees and your tax dollars, that otherwise costs you nothing. Samey Same the Park.

    I yearned all my childhood for a backyard pool, but my parents swam at the OLD Riverside pool in the 30’s (some foundation still visible but gone) and we used the NEW Riverside pool built in the late 50’s–The seperate Diving pool that was 17 feet deep was filled in in the 80’s). Good enough for them, good enough for me.

    The Pool and the Park are still there,even though the neighborhood is now black and Puerto Rican instead of Poles,Slavs, Russians and Germans.

    Food for Alan’s Thoughts–I decided I wasn’t gonna deny my kids the pool that I didn’t have. I bought one used from a fellow deputy in Va Beach and put it in, new liner. Costs of filter hose, electric for the filter, Chemicals, Now I know why my dad told me to walk my ass down to Riverside Park to swim. Should have told MY teenagers to take the shuttle to the Oceanfront–the Atlantic is Free as well.

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    Tuco Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 7:20 am

    The worst possible return on investment at resale, higher insurance rates, and costly maintenance. All for something that sits there dormant for 9-10 months per year.

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