Here in central Florida in my community The Villages, it is made up of about 80 villages with 800 to 1500 homes in each village. Each village has a neighborhood pool for the residents, must be 30 or older to use, no one under 19 can live here and 80% of the homeowners must be 55 or older by law. So having a pool limited to adults only makes sense. Here's our neighborhood pool.
We also have recreation centers, about 25 of them scattered about which have family pools, mostly for people to take guests like now. Yesterday I ate out and saw a lot of young people, something we almost never see. We also have 12 championship (27 hole layouts) country clubs and they have pools. Those cost $200 a year to join, that way it's kind of private even from other residents. If all this wasn't enough, I would estimate out of the 60,000 homes in The Villages, probably 20,000 have private pools, and all must have birdcages since fences aren't allowed. In Florida a pool must be enclosed with a fence or birdcage.
I don't have a pool but I did when I lived in Pensacola, actually two homes I had one. We didn't have birdcages in the panhandle of Florida, fenced yards were the norm. I had a vinyl pool which is very popular in that area, and yet here in central Florida concrete pools dominate and are much more expensive. I found taking care of a pool was rather easy. I would check both of the skimmer baskets daily for any debris, mostly pine needles. Replace the chlorine cartridge about every 3 weeks in the automatic chlorinator. Run the hand net across the surface for any floating debris and backwash the pool filter about once a week. I might spend 5 to 10 minutes a day on the pool, certainly not worth paying someone.
Here is a photo of my first vinyl pool that I had at my home in 1979 in Pensacola, total cost for this 16X32' pool was $5,000. I sold the home two years later and built another home, I was general contractor on my home, that was something I did on side, saved a lot of money. The next home I had the same pool builder and we had an 18x36' pool with diving board, underwater lights, steps, ladder and more decking and total cost in 1981 was $7700. I don't have a photo of that pool. I know this was 40 years ago, but still the prices they're getting here for concrete pools is ridiculous, $50,000 and up.
For those who say a vinyl pool is not as good and will not last. For one thing, the savings in the price is well worth giving it a try. Here's that same pool almost 35 years later, a 2012 photo I found on zillow when the house was for sale.
