What State Fits My Family Best?

[babymakes6]

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Not me. I vote for Pennsylvania. The Amish can't be wron, can they? Just north of Harrisburg is some great mountainy areas with plenty of land.

The Amish have always been in Pennsylvania, and that is part of the problem-everyone wants to see them and the area is a huge tourist attraction. Actually, it is also why there are so many new Amish communities in other states-it is too many people and very few farms available for new families just starting out. What land does become available goes for a steep price.

 

[redhen]

I'd go with Vermont or Maine

 

[deerman]

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Not me. I vote for Pennsylvania. The Amish can't be wron, can they? Just north of Harrisburg is some great mountainy areas with plenty of land.

The Amish have always been in Pennsylvania, and that is part of the problem-everyone wants to see them and the area is a huge tourist attraction. Actually, it is also why there are so many new Amish communities in other states-it is too many people and very few farms available for new families just starting out. What land does become available goes for a steep price.

Ohio has it share of Amish......northeastern 1/4 .

 

[bakerjw]

Look for the state with the most freedoms. I moved from the restrictive state of Illinois to very unrestricted state of Tennessee and have never looked back. A good guide IMHO is gun laws.

 

[Avalon1984]

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I'd say somewhere in West Michigan, like Ravenna or Fremont. There are some areas in Muskegon still that give you all the freedoms and soome infrastructure (vet offices, grain mills, grocery store, etc) as well.

 

[babymakes6]

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The Amish have always been in Pennsylvania, and that is part of the problem-everyone wants to see them and the area is a huge tourist attraction. Actually, it is also why there are so many new Amish communities in other states-it is too many people and very few farms available for new families just starting out. What land does become available goes for a steep price.

Ohio has it share of Amish......northeastern 1/4 .

Indiana also has a huge population of Amish-mainly in the North, but smaller communities in other areas too. My point was that it wasn't that the Amish are wrong, it is just that they have always been in Pennsylvania. If they were moving now, they stay away from PA because it is too developed and hard to find good farmland. That is also why so many of the young men are learning new trades. They have always been farmers, but now many more need to find construction work, landscaping, furniture shops, and even bulk food or dry goods store because farms are hard to come by.

 

[Johndeere96]

New hampshire