Can you imagine a life without the internet, social media, or even personal cars? I traveled to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home to one of the largest concentrated Amish populations in the world. Here, the roads are worn down by horse hooves, and local banks have built stables next to their drive-through lanes. The Amish are living in a parallel reality inside modern America, yet their community is thriving and doubling in size every 20 years.
In this video, we explore how the Amish manage their economy, visit a buggy dealership where carriages sell for up to $10,000, and look inside their self-service farm stands where money is left unattended in glass jars. We also cross paths with the Mennonites, test the largest buffet in the United States, and examine how their strict rejection of vanity and modern technology actually makes them one of the happiest and most resilient communities on Earth.
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Timestamps:
00:00 The demographic future is Amish
01:05 Why their population doubles every 20 years
02:00 Traveling to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
02:52 Paved roads worn down by horse hooves
03:42 How Amish live next to ordinary Americans
04:33 Primitive farming is hard work
05:22 Gas-powered washing machines
05:41 Reviewing the Red Caboose train motel
07:55 The Amish “minivan” buggy
08:32 No consoles, no cartoons: Amish childhood
09:10 Do child labor laws apply to Amish farms?
10:47 Steam tractors: the apogee of Amish technology
12:10 Mixing horses with modern fertilizer trailers
14:04 Brakes and LED lights: why police arrest buggy drivers
14:39 Inside an Amish buggy dealership
16:13 Testing a $3,500 used buggy
17:50 How a brand new buggy can cost $10,000
18:51 Banning TV, radio, and the internet
19:27 Who was Jacob Ammann?
20:27 Bicycles are banned, but scooters are fine
20:42 Why the Amish only accept cash and checks
21:59 Vanity is a mortal sin: why they hate cameras
23:37 How the Amish use local drive-through banks
25:33 Perfect lawns and no fences in Pennsylvania
26:10 Hand tools and garden shops in the middle of nowhere
29:21 The self-service farm stand with a money jar
34:01 Parking buggies at the local supermarket
35:04 The tourist market: selling organic quilts and Bible quotes
36:43 Tasting homemade Amish asparagus soup
38:32 Banning personal cars out of principle
43:18 Fleeing Europe: how William Penn saved the Amish
44:50 Inside a modern $300,000 Amish house
48:00 Raising a barn in a single day
49:04 Celebrating the Ascension of the Lord without temples
52:13 Buggy parking and hired American drivers
57:59 Riding the oldest steam train in Strasburg
1:02:27 Exploring Strasburg: the cleanest town in America
1:04:09 Leaving Amazon packages on the street without cameras
1:09:59 The clean province vs dirty Manhattan and San Francisco
1:12:43 Original 19th-century doors and hitching posts
1:17:38 Total poverty in Russian small towns vs US province
1:20:28 Watching a local Amish baseball match
1:22:50 Inside the Museum of Amish Culture
1:26:35 Why do Pennsylvania’s wooden bridges have roofs?
1:27:26 Mixed-gender classes in a one-room Amish school
1:28:33 Speaking Pennsylvania Dutch: Yiddish and German dialects
1:30:32 Inside the largest Amish buffet in the United States
1:33:55 The Mennonite supermarket: raw milk and Bible books
1:37:03 Smuggling organic raw milk into New York
1:38:46 Vladimir and Kamchatka: cheap vodka in plastic bottles
1:40:32 Meeting the Mennonites: flying a drone over the fields
1:45:10 The secret to happiness without antidepressants
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