Here in Las Vegas where the temperature is over 110 degrees for weeks on end every summer, homes with pools are very popular. Does every home have a pool? No, in fact, only about 10-15% of homes in the Las Vegas valley do have pools. About another 10% are in neighborhoods with community pools.
Things to remember with pools, the cost to keep a swimming pool up can be up around $100 a month year round. As spring warms up and you are looking at homes and you think, summer is coming, I need a pool, remember the cost to keep it up and also expect to pay a premium of $10-20K for that beautiful water oasis that you may only use once a week for 3 months a year.
It is all about convenience too. Having to step only feet into your private yard to take a dip and cool off sure beats getting in the car and hitting up one of the public pools or even one of the resorts on the strip for their overpriced water retreat. When you put it in those terms the cost of your own pool is fairly insignificant.
Oh, if you are relocating to southern Nevada and think you will just buy a lot big enough to have a pool built. Talk to a local pool contractor first. Here in the Las Vegas area, many neighborhoods have hard soil called Caliche. Caliche is known as "nature's cement" and can be very costly to dig a pool in some neighborhoods. When you look at homes with pools you will notice they are usually only 5-6 feet deep here in the desert and this is due to the cost of digging in the hard soil. In southern California it is common to have a 9ft deep pool.
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