TDP (AKA: The #$@^ Pool

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Personal problem here. I bought this house and moved in in March, 2011. It has a nice 13000 gallon pool, dimensions 15x30x5. It was built in June, 1994.

I've about had it with the pool. I promised myself I'd give it a year before making a decision, but I think the year may be up! Yesterday I spent another hundred on clorox tablets, and was thinking of spending another on a pool person to come and fix the kreepy crawler thing. I spend time daily working on it, checking the chemicals and working to keep them balanced so that there's no living thing in it so I can use it, but because of the temps and weather, I haven't been in it much anyway. And I'm not a swimmer—or a chemist, either!

It came with the house, and original intent was to have it demolished.
I talked to a contractor neighbor this morning to see about having it filled in. I know it will cost about $4000 or so, and before I do that I want ideas about other uses for it, whether it be with water or rocks or nothing, in it. I don't think I can simply drain it , although that's a thought. Drain it, drill a couple of holes for rain drainage, and leave it like that. People have said that if it's not filled in, it will eventually pop out of the ground. I do not know if that's true or not, or how to find out. Anybody know for sure? Maybe just drain it, drill a couple of holes, and see what happens. I need to do this at the least expense.

I thought about filling it about half way with rocks, then adding soil, and having a "sunken" yard. That reduces the cost of rocks, and if a future buyer wants to have the pool again, the cost of removal of the rocks will also be less.

Maybe I could enclose it for a garage, shop or storage. The bottom of the pool is actually about street level. The street is about 20 feet to the east. It appears that this house, and the ones west of me are on a narrow fold of land. The house west of me is slightly higher than mine, but the house/yard on the north is street level—about 5 feet lower
The house is deck level, (about 5 feet above the street. It might be reasonable to simply remove the concrete and smooth out the ground, and have steps down to that level... a fully sunken yard. Have the yard at the level of the street. I may have to rebuild the block wall between us, but the neighbor has no fence on the east side.

All thoughts and ideas welcome. Please, help me out here.
Thanks.