[sce]

I think the problem is that buildings like you describe don't contribute to the city at street level. If the residental buildings are smaller then the gym, sauna, swimming pool will have to be in the neighborhood available to everyone.

[leonidasv]

I wouldn't swim in a "neighbourhood pool", doesn't seem hygienic.

A neighbour gym would also be crowded all the time, all my friends that have to go out for the gym always complain about that.

The public sauna seems ok, but I've never seem any of that in the streets besides "erotic saunas" that are not really intended for the same purposes...

[watwut]

> I wouldn't swim in a "neighbourhood pool", doesn't seem hygienic.

It is as hygienic as any other swimming pool. Unless you literally have your own pool in your backyard, which overwhelming majority of swimmers dont, you are not getting more hygiene.

> A neighbour gym would also be crowded all the time, all my friends that have to go out for the gym always complain about that.

This may depend on locality, but fair solution to that is allowing simple capitalism and more businesses. Someone gonna build second gym.

[nl]

> It is as hygienic as any other swimming pool. Unless you literally have your own pool in your backyard, which overwhelming majority of swimmers dont, you are not getting more hygiene.

(Former) private pool owner here. I'd bet most public neighborhood pools are much more hygienic than a private pool where we'd only test the water when algae started growing. Public pools have proper maintenance and much better systems for chlorination/salt cleaning.

[jacquesm]

One thing I learned from friends in Panama: a pool comes with a pool guy and if it doesn't it'll quite literally convert into a cesspool all by itself. Pools need regular upkeep and that's a lot of work.

[matsemann]

This is one of the most affluent and sheltered comments I've seen on HN ever. Literally made me laugh out loud.

[rayiner]

It’s not “affluent and sheltered” at all. My cousin just moved from Bangladesh to the Dallas suburbs, after having lived in Queens. I bet if I asked her how she feels about having a house with a pool now she’d say the same thing.

[omnimus]

This is exactly same attitude Andreesen has. Entitled attitude towards others.

Meeting other people might be scary at first. But ultimately sharing is caring.