After bugging the hubby for years about springing for an inground (I grew up with one) I can see it'll never happen! His compromise is to get a bid to level a part of our all-sloped back yard and have a paver stone patio, to match our fire pit area, put in directly below our deck. We are in Oregon, in a region where rain is typical and we have a short summer season; also in a neighborhood with newer large homes on 1 acre, unfenced lots and strict CC&R's - and on a corner lot with wide open visibility of our back yard. The thought is that we would get an above ground pool to place on the patio that we could put up in May and take down in early September. So the pool area would be an extended outdoor area for us in the non-summer months, we wouldn't have a bunch of dead grass where a pool was sitting all summer and hopefully no issues with neighbors leaving a pool up 12 months out of the year. He thinks an Intex pool would be fine, I'm spoiled from growing up with an in ground pool so that doesn't sound too great to me. I personally love the idea of an above ground buried pool with a paver surround, or in-deck, above ground pool but we've checked into it and the price tag to do that is pretty steep as well. If we do end up going with a patio paver I guess I need to know which type of above grounds can be taken down and then put back up each season? I would like it to be as deep as possible for an above ground with sitting on pavers, that is. Also, as good a filtrations system as possible and a heater of some type. Obviously a giant unused patio next to our deck is going to look a bit odd and bare in the winter so I guess I'm somewhat limited on how large of an above ground pool to get as well I'm thinking an 18' round or some size of smaller rectangle. Thanks for any input in advance!