I mowed grass and shoveled snow for 38 years. I haven't now for the last 27. I don't miss it, and I'll never do either again. Time in the pool is better spent.
I don't like swimming pools. As a kid I would sometimes swim in a public pool instead of a lake. They had so much chlorine in it that it didn't matter what color you were going in, you came out white. I'd much rather swim in a lake, which we have plenty of. Besides bordering on 4 of the 5 Great Lakes, Michigan has 64,980 inland lakes. 6,537 of them are 10 acres or more. The biggest one is Houghton Lake, home the Tip Up Town USA Winter Festival, at 20,044 acres. There are thousands of visitors from several states every year, and it has it's own temporary post office in the winter. There are only 14 lakes in my county, with the biggest being halfway in another county. They range from a 19 acre lake in a local park to a 1,975 acre reservoir.
No place in Michigan is more than six miles from a lake. Google Maps says I could be at one less than 4 miles away in 10 minutes.
Plus there are hundreds of rivers in Michigan totaling approximately 51,438 miles, if I just want to be near the water. Right now I'm about a mile from a 78.3 mile long river that flows through 3 counties. And there are over 300 waterfalls in Michigan, with Tahquamenon Falls' Upper Falls being second only to Niagara Falls as the largest waterfall east of the Mississippi River. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha mentions "the rushing Taquamenaw", where Hiawatha learned how to paddle a birchbark canoe. People still canoe the Tahquamenon River. I don't know of any swimming pools that inspired anyone to write a 22 part poem (actually 23 counting the introduction) that people still read 163 years later.