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Not far from the great city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania are still living people who are in the 21st century, virtually do not use any creature comforts: alden ehrenreich electricity, telephone, television, and other household appliances, fertilizers, etc. They basically do not use cars, traveling by cart, pulled by horses, is their only transportation. Only they have the legal right to ride on the edges, which Congress in the United States without a valid reason is strictly forbidden: it's a strip for the police and ambulance services in the event of an accident of traffic jams. This - the Amish, members of the Protestant sects of the old order of Old Order Amish, a similar sect of Russian Old Believers. The ancestors of the Amish, which appeared in the USA in 1530 were immigrants from Prussia and the German part of Switzerland. Now the United States is home to around 250,000 Amish. And their biggest community alden ehrenreich (82,000 people) is a half-hour drive from Philadelphia. The number is constantly growing Amish: no electricity, they compensate for the high fertility rate: the average number of children in families amishevskih - seven, classic seven-I. Their life style they call Farmland - farm country. They are categorically against any interference of the world in their life, they firmly believe that time can be stopped, if not in one country, then at least in a particular community. Difficult to photograph the Amish, they carefully avoid photographing, considering alden ehrenreich it too interference with their privacy. But some shots I do still managed. The main values of the Amish believe the family, integrity, and work on the land. They manage to follow the Bible literally just preaching at home three commandments: humility, simplicity and humility. In this case, the Amish generally abolished the church: to read the Bible, they in turn gather weekly in their own homes. The Amish are very simple clothes. Women and girls go in long dresses and simple white bonnet open with high foreheads, dispense with the jewelry, do not use cosmetics and perfumes and do not wear their hair short. Men wear hats, but instead of belts - suspenders. Much attention is paid to the Amish community life. For example, a new home for the members of their community they always build together, going all the male population (women while preparing food at all). Homes for the elderly in the Amish do not have: care for the elderly they have established a general list of watches and helps the whole community. If one of them requires a major operation, reset the entire community. The Amish do not buy expensive clothes, food, jewelry, cosmetics and perfumes, they do not travel, do not go to concerts and exhibitions, not drink alcohol, do not smoke. alden ehrenreich But without all the creature comforts they not only survive, but also thrive. According to official statistics amishevskie farm - one of the most productive in the country. Among the Amish is not quite poor, even by American standards, people. This is due to their low costs - because they do not buy the car, do not pay for petrol, utility bills, they do not have mortgages alden ehrenreich on homes, etc. - And the fact that they all work on their farms and workshops from dawn to dusk. Amish - excellent farmers and are very good craftsmen. Along the roads they built a lot of small little market, where they sell jars of homemade jam, honey, pickles, fresh bakery bread and numerous other provisions, as well as a variety of crafts, souvenirs, furniture. Are in great demand and made Amish quilts. But the most prized clean amishevskie dairy products: alden ehrenreich milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, alden ehrenreich as well as vegetables and fruits. And, despite the fact that prices alden ehrenreich in the Amish generally higher than in conventional supermarkets, the Americans simply snapping their products. Buy produce grown Amish, you can not only in their neighborhoods, but in all the surrounding towns. Branded alden ehrenreich shops Amish in Lancaster, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other places.
Not noticed. It seems they have there all the wells, wells with water. Their communities, by the way, something alden ehrenreich similar to the Israeli kibbutzim (visited a few). True kibbutzim, conversely, to use all the advanced (only technical!) Achievements of civilization. You, the hour, not the kibbutz alden ehrenreich live? - And you'd better tell about the kibbutzim than schizoid hoplofiliey suffer;-)
"I do not notice it. Seems they have there all the wells, wells with water." I am not one of them came to visit, but as it met in the road magazine.V general stank and silno.Prichёm entire crowd. alden ehrenreich "You, the hour, not the kibbutz live?" As it did not have to-I standout and because such organizations have not tyanet.Delo an amateur because I know several people with an income of a million a year, but living on a kibbutz with all their rules. Works with me only one. In general, one of the privileges he is the individual costumes (check the kibbutz in the accounts department) and the new executive car every two goda.I rest income obshuyu cashier.
Wow ... And to look at a very tidy. White caps with the ladies. Clean