The house I grew up in, in northern Virginia, had an in-ground pool in the backyard. From teh time I was about 10, it was my job to do the routine maintenance, whcih I suspect was more complicated then than it is for pools now.
It was worth it, totally worth it. To be able to step out the back door and plunk into that pool on any hot summer afternoon…it was sweet. Too bad there’s really no good place to fit a pool on our lot. Maybe a hot tub, one of these years… 