How important is it for a community to have a local pool? Well, that may depend on where you live, with city residents much more likely than rural folks to say a local pool is "very important."

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  1. Data Source: CivicScience InsightStore
    Data Visualization: Infogram

  2. Maybe rural people are more likely to have a local lake or pond or something to swim in for free

  3. I would think the more rural you are the higher likelihood of you living within proximity of a lake or either owning or knowing someone who owns a decent pool increases

  5. I mean, as a rural resident myself we don’t really have a community *anything*. It’s a ten mile drive just to get groceries. The idea of a “community pool” is pretty much a novelty in those situation.

  6. I wonder how well this correlates to the degree of health code enforcement to own a private pool or dammed pond.

  7. Also cities are generally 2-3 degrees Celsius hotter than surrounding rural areas and hold the the heat later into to night.

  8. In virtually every place I have ever lived I have never used the community pool

  9. No shit.

    Rural people – I’ve got rivers and ponds, lakes and maybe a personal pool.

    Suburban – I’ve got a personal pool, or the community pool (HOA). Or a nice big membership gym nearby with a pool.

    City – maybe the 1% have a pool in the skyscraper, but 99% people don’t have a pool.

  10. What is Generation Pop?? Is this a new term for Gen Z? I thought people were calling them Zoomers.

  11. If you’re country, you swim in the lake. 

    My family is from Vietnam, which used to be too poor to have commonly have swimming pools. The urban side of my family cant swim because there wasn’t anywhere for them to practice, the rural side grew up with rivers and ponds to play in 

  12. I mean… yeah?

    Most rural areas aren’t going to have this level of community amenities because the population/density doesn’t warrant it and there are alternatives (natural bodies of water, private pools). Most urban areas are the opposite.

    That said, the fact that the difference in public opinion is so small is pretty telling as to how few people utilize them.

  13. We have zero public pools in my city, but we have a bunch of beaches

  14. Pools (from my experience) seem insanely expensive compared to most other public amenities, so I’d actually be surprised if people were willing to fund pools if they had the option to choose it vs other similar priced baskets of amenities. I say this as a Floridian who thinks pools are great and has them around me in service all year, meaning ours are even more cost efficient than in places that open only seasonally.

    Like idk the exact numbers, but my guess is it’d be a ballpark like would you rather have a pool or have a hiking trail, a boat launch, a skate park, a dog park, a child’s playground, chin up bars, a couple soccer fields and baseball fields, and RC car track, and a volleyball court?

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