Would you like to live like the Amish?

no no absolutely not.i am too much of a city person to even consider living like the amish.absolutely not!imagine not even having the basics.no tv and refrigerator.i have to say that city life is one million times better than living like the amish!

heck no,why it is not fun.No lights,tv,fashionable clothes.Not for me.

No I would not. There are the old order Amish who shun all modern conveniances but there are also variations in Amish people. Some use motors, tractors and cars but the rest of their life is pretty simplistic. They do not believe in education either, just to Grade 8 then the children are taken out to work on the land. I wonder if their life is really more peaceful. Certainly it cannot be simple with all the hard work they have to do.

sometimes i would love to live like the amish people

sometimes i would love to live like the amish people

No, they are far too simplistic and I am too adjusted to modern life with technology.

No. Just when I go camping

I don't mind when I have to live without electricity for a few days, but to live that way every day takes a lot of patience and planning. The town next to where I live is predominently Amish in population. It's the second biggest Amish community in Ohio. Over the years I've had many Amish friends, and been privileged to be in their houses many times. I know most people think of the Amish as living without electricity and their housing must be poor quality, but I have to say they're some of the finest craftsmen (and women) I've ever met. Their homes are beautiful inside, and lots of their furniture has been finely made and crafted by them. Some of it puts purchased furniture to shame!! I'm a farmer, and used to have a lot of dealings with them in regards to farming and cattle, etc. Lots of the equipment they use is the same type of equipment that we use to pull behind our tractors, except theirs is used re-configured to be pulled behind their draft horses. Ours used to be a dairy farm, and I appreciated the fact that we had electric milking machines to do our work with...for them, they still do it all by hand, but there are more of them in their families to do the work. While they don't have phones in their houses, usually there is a public phone down the street, even in the country where there aren't any 'yanks' (what they call US.) Since the shooting of all the little Amish girls (this summer) they will be permitted to keep donated cell phones that will only dial 911, on the premises of their schools for safety's sake. They do this all in the name of their religious beliefs. When kids reach a certain age, they are allowed to go into the world and live as others for a while until they decide to truly adopt and follow their religious beliefs. I have to laugh sometimes when I see an Amish buggy zipping down the road w

O hell no! I'd actually go crazy! It's great that they can be happy living such a basic lifestyle but no way is it for me.

Well Were we live there is a lot of amish here. They all get together to cook. If something happen they all come together. Just like they did in the old days. But I couldn't live without power, running water, wearing a dress all the time. No way, not me.

What, and be without my internet!! No way Jose!

oh my good lord noooo!! i like simple.. but amish is a little too simple for me!

not living but acting like amish in realationshps

No way! I could never do it. We had no power after a snowstorm here in October for 5 days and I thought that I would die of boredom. No TV, no radio, no computer, no lights to read by, no heat, no electric stove. The treadmill wouldn't even work, because that's electric too! It's unbelievable how dependent we are on electricity, but I sure was glad to have it come back on.

- Sometimes, I think I would. And sometimes I wish I lived back when everyone lived like that. There were lots of dangers though.. So many women dying at a child's birth.. and people dying young.. But the lifestyle! I think I'd like it! But just a small place not so awful hard to keep a little warm in the winter.. Just think though too, having to grow so much of your own food.. I hate cars.. hate grocery stores, but I guess they have their advantages..! I do like to try to live a simple life. Not easy what with all the bills life has.

i would not like to live like them forever, but i would like to live a day in there lives. i think it would make me look at life a lot more different. i think i would apperciate the world a little more. i don't think i would take the every day things for granted any longer.

no way!! I'd miss my computer and internet too much!!

No need my electricity. t's odd how we depend on things that other people dont need or care about.

I love the simplicity of the Amish. I am not afraid of the hard work that they do. I need the electricity need to run things that they don't believe in. I do believe in modern conveniences that they don't.

First I would have to be a Christian, and I am not. Then I would have to be a wife and mother , and I would hate that. And then living without electicity or t.v. or movies. I don't think so.