I'm in CT, my pool has been in for about 15 years.

I started with a chlorine pool, using chlorine tabs which were recommended by the company that installed the pool.

As I educated myself about pool water chemistry, I moved to using 12% liquid chlorine. I'd manually dose as needed. I was able to maintain very nice water chemistry, much better than when using the tabs. Never a worry.

Several years ago I was looking at overhauling my equipment and was pretty certain that I was going to turn my liquid chlorine pool into a salt pool and install a salt/chlorine generator. The more I researched, I realized that for MY circumstances it wasn't going to be the perfect solution I initially thought it would be. I'd still need to use liquid chlorine at times during the season, as generators can only produce so much chlorine. Liquid chlorine always works, doesn't use electricity, and it doesn't have a cell core that needs to be replaced every few years.

I decided to stick with liquid chlorine. It was the best solution for ME.

I'm really happy I did. But I modified my setup a bit. I ended up installing a Stenner peristaltic pump to dose my pool with chlorine and I use a 15 gallon jug for holding bulk chlorine. The pump meters a few ounces of liquid chlorine into the pool at several times throughout the day. I can manually override the dose if needed, and I know the required amount made it into the pool at that moment. The 15 gallon tank lasts a few months. I usually refill it once per season, my pool is open mid-April to early November.

The pool water is terrific. No odor issues, no skin irritation, no nothing. With the peristaltic pump to dispense chlorine, it's crazy low maintenance.

A very minor point, but we've lost our electrical power a several times over the last few years, twice for a week. I can still manually dose the pool with liquid chlorine. Again, not at all anything to sway someone one way or another, as it's a bit of an outlier. But I thought I'd mention it.

Added info in case you are new to pools, which I certainly was when I had mine installed:

1) I'd highly recommend installing a variable speed pool pump. When my pool was built a 1-1/2hp single speed pump was installed. When I overhauled my equipment several years ago, I replaced the single speed pump with a variable speed. The pump cost me about $850 or so, but during turnover runs it uses a fraction of the electricity that my old single speed used. Over the course of the swim season, it uses roughly 15% the electricity of the old single speed. The pump paid for itself in a little over one season.

2) Filter, when I replaced my equipment, I oversized my pool filter as well. When my pool (20' x 40') was built they installed a Pentair C&C 240 cartridge filter. It was fine, but it did have some limitations. I'd have to clean the cartridges a few times each season. Not horrible. When I overhauled, I oversized my new filter, I installed a Pentair Quad DE 100. It's a cartridge filter that gets a coating of DE on the filter media. With the filter being oversized, I have not had to clean the filter at all during the swim season. Only in the Fall when I winterize. I considered other types of filters, but I had a cartridge filter and felt comfortable staying in that "family", even though the new filter is sort of a hybrid cartridge filter that uses DE as well.

3) Heater. My pool has medium charcoal plaster, and it gets all the warmth it needs in the summer from daily sun exposure. Very seldom have I heated the pool with the heater, it's really only been when my kids have had pool parties early or late in the season. I have a spa, the heater is fired up 3-4 nights a week for that. I have a 400k BTU heater. Here's the thing. It takes so many BTUs to heat up your spa water from say 80 degrees to 95 degrees. It's essentially going to take the same volume of propane or natural gas to heat the water from 80 to 95 regardless the size of heater you have. But a 400K heater will essentially heat the water up in half the time a 200k heater will, again, all while using the same amount of propane or natural gas.

When I want the spa heated up, I usually want to jump in soon. I can wait 10-15 minutes, no problem. But waiting 20 minutes? 30 Minutes? It probably sounds silly debating the extra 10-15 minutes, it's definitely a trivial first-world problem. But...it can make a difference in how you use your spa, and how convenient you find it to use your spa. If you can splurge the extra few hundred dollars for a larger heater, I recommend it. I started with a Pentair mini-max heater, I had a lot of problems with it. I replaced that with the Raypak heater. I love it. Zero issues since it was installed several years ago, and very easy to DIY-service.

There are certainly different strokes for different folks, and equipment brands can be regional or favored by the people installing your pool. But I'm pretty happy with my pump, filter, heater, and liquid chlorine setup.

I rambled on well beyond your original question...

Good luck with the process.