How expensive is pool

[Pekka]

And when it's late, we can all get fired up and hate the poor people for making us feel guilty for our good fortune.. and hop on to my minivan I use to drive my kids to soccer practise and beat up homeless people Norman Bates style. I have masks for everyone, those weird Japanese splatter movie style masks. 'Say Arigato you poor bastard' *BLONK!*

Then we can get the back to the house, and load the kids to the minivan. We trick them there to get drive-in food, and accidentally drive next to the homeless people we trashed and stop the car. 'You see Mark? That what's going to happen to you, if you don't make good grades. You see? That's what happens if you start using drugs. Look closely. LOOK! STAY IN SCHOOL MARK, STAY IN SCHOOL!!!! Ok let's get you those burgers..'

Or we can just forget the last part of the party if someone feels it's not cool.

[mrmitchell]

What is a nice place to live? I need it to be moderately safe, good place for kids meaning good school district and safe for them too? The prices of the houses are not the most expensive, and you get more bang for your buck? Nice friendly atmosphere, and maybe a good sports team near, NHL or NFL will do?

I can't tell you where to live, but I can tell you where not to live.

DO NOT MOVE TO
-Utah
-Texas
-Iowa.
Don't even think about it. Not once. In fact, scratch them off all US maps you have. They do not exist.

Then, it's my own personal opinion that I'd rather like someplace that wasn't mountainous and desert, but that's just me. However, I think it can be taken for a fact that Utah and Texas are the worst hellholes on the western hemisphere....Iowa closely behind.

[Kuciwalker]

Come to Virginia. It's nice here. Especially near DC (though the cost of living is pretty high around here, but the schools are AMAZING so it's nice if you have kids or are planning to)

[Pekka]

Utah I understand, but what's wrong with Iowa and Texas? At least Texans are pretty nice folks, well at least in here.

And what about them pools, what is the price range in your opinion?

[Pekka]

Hey, no one has any ideas? No one has a pool? Or was your pool inflatable kiddy pool and you made it to jacuzzi by farting in it?

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Pekka
between that range? That's ok I guess.. what about the balls and sticks and the light thing? Does it come with it, or just the table?

Normally, buying a table would include cues, balls, triangle, and maybe a rest as well.

If you're serious about playing, you should look at buying your own cue. You can get decent factory cues between $100 and $200.
For a custom cue, it should be at least $250 or so.

Personally, I'm looking to have a custom cue made.

[Pekka]

Well not serious playing as in very serious. But no crappy cues either. I'll settle with the regular ones, and then go from there.

No guestimates for swimming pools?

[Chemical Ollie]

My swimming pool is about 250 000 € if I sell it (350 m2 house included). But I can only use the pool about 10 weeks per year, at most.

I think you can get a Pool game with plywood tabletop for 200 €. It is not as good as a stone tabletop, but it will do the job.

[Pekka]

Chemical Ollie.. the view can't be described in words.. but it's beautiful.

[Chemical Ollie]

The cost of a swimming pool depends very much on the labour cost in the country where you live. I bet Finland is similar to Sweden, so perhaps 20.000 € if you let a pro do the job. If you dig the hole yourself, perhaps you can get away with a little less than half of that.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Pekka
Chemical Ollie.. the view can't be described in words.. but it's beautiful.

If it was daylight, I would see that from the room where I sit now.

[Pekka]

Chem, yep I know that. My father knows about these things a lot (building stuff) and he said it's about 20 000 euros.. outdoors pool. Inside it's naturally more expensive, let alone it has to be small, so eventually it comes to about the same price, but a lot smaller. Naturally if you have to build to cover it (meaning you can't fit it in to the house already), then it's hella expensive.

But yes, 20 000 euros was the exact number he threw at me today . I also asked 'what about if you dig the hole yourself?'.. he said it would naturally lower the cost, but not very much. THe problem is that you need to make the water you know.. circulate.. and you need equipment for that, and you need to build it correctly to make it work here in the north.. with the winters and all that, so it's 20 000 euros. I guess that would be close worth it, if we had warm all around the year but with the weathers here.. not worth it.

[Chemical Ollie]

A heat pump from a deep well in the bedrock would be a good idea if you have an outdoor pool.

[Pekka]

Yes it would be.. Well I don't know, maybe pools do cost this much in the US as well. But this is normal average pool with no specialities.. but a pool, no kiddy pool.
If it was warm here all the time, I might consider that option with these prices too, but .. wait a minute, I just blabbered about this in my previous post. I'm drunk, sorry, kind of repetitive .

It's kind of funny.. I always am loud about little things here in Finland, but the fact is it's not actually cheap in Sweden either.. about the same prices.. and all the other stuff. I guess you Swedes just take it better .

[Chemical Ollie]

You should stay in Finland, buy a house by a lake, build a sauna on the shore and use the sauna to enable swimming in the lake all year round! It will give you much more value for money.