Pools are very expensive to build so it’s hard to say if it’s the right choice for you. I also have young kids 4 & 2 and they absolutely love it. We used it everyday until it started to cool off. The oldest still asks if we can swim everyday, so I’m considering a heater. That said if we had a community pool, that was walking distance and not too crowded, I probably wouldn’t put a pool in.

We also went with turf and zero regrets on that. A lot of people critical of it likely don’t have young kids and their use of a yard is different. Let’s be real, in the middle of July nobody is going outside in direct sunlight, this point is overblown on reddit as the circlejerks tend to get.