Are There Amish/Mennonite People Where You Live?
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« on: April 10, 2021, 10:38:01 AM »

Yes, both where I used to live (SW MO) and where I live now (northern MO).
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« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2021, 11:27:31 AM »

Not at all. I doubt there are more than a handful of Mennonites or Amish in the entirety of Italy honestly.
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« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2021, 11:34:15 AM »

The biggest Amish community in Maryland is centered on Mechanicsville in St. Mary's County, surely better-known to this crowd as where Steny Hoyer lives. There's a minor presence in northern Baltimore County, and scatterings in Cecil and Garrett Counties, some of whom, it seems, were rather ironically gentrified out of Lancaster County.

There's also a minor Mennonite presence, including in Baltimore proper, strangely enough. Sometimes you'll see folk in Mennonite garb walking through Roland Park or Hampden.
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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2021, 12:27:17 PM »

Arguably (or not so arguably, I think it's more or less an accepted fact), both anabaptism and the amish originated in Switzerland. Bbut they weren't so popular, so didn't really stick around.

Today there are a handful of mennonites living in the Bernese Jura (especially the three German speaking, yellow-orange coloured communes on this map) as well as a handful in the Emmental region of Bern. But that is basically it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2021, 03:20:32 PM »

I don't think there are any Amish in California. Chicago, interestingly, is a bit of a hub for the Amish — if they are traveling cross-country (to visit family, on business, whatever) they do so by bus or train, and Chicago is the most important railroad center in North America, so you'll see a few any time you're in Union Station. I don't believe there are any residents though.
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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2021, 12:36:12 AM »

I've only seen Mennonites a few times at random places. Idk where they had come from
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« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2021, 06:38:05 PM »

I've only ever seen Mennonites/Amish people when I've been to Lancaster County. I don't think there are any major communities in New Jersey.
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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2021, 02:40:34 AM »

Drove past a Mennonite church one time somewhere north of Eugene. It was Sunday so they were having service. They drove cars but dressed like you'd expect. Not fully Amish but very modest.

Oregon also has some Russian Old Believers which are fairly similar in the clothes they wear. If you go to Woodburn a lot of the signs will have Russian translations and you might see one or two walking down the street. They stand out but they also drive cars/use technology and while they keep to themselves they do interact with the outside world.
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2021, 07:59:14 AM »

I think the only time I've seen Mennonites is at Yosemite as tourists.
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2021, 09:08:28 PM »

There were some relatively permissive sect of mennonites in my neighborhood(Orange county, NC); rich guy somehow related to the Rockefellers converted in his mid-20s, married another rich woman who converted. They dressed the part since before I was born, their house looked like something you'd see in colonial Williamsburg.
One of their children was an unwanted pregnancy, so the guy shunned her for the entire term. Probably as a result of that, the mom went crazy, endangered her children and had them taken by CPS, they divorced and she's now a (somewhat more sane) jazz singing Dolezal clone married to a black dude. Dad moved to Raleigh, came into a lot of his inheritance and is still practicing with a Filipino immigrant wife.
That's my only impression of amish/mennonites outside of descendants of the original families, who seem much cooler.
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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2021, 09:11:36 PM »

There are some significant Amish and Mennonite communities in Southwestern Middle Tennessee, about an hour's drive from me.
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« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2021, 09:04:24 AM »

I’m in Michiana, so yes
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« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2021, 10:08:38 AM »

I've only seen Amish at train stations (Union Station in Chicago most often).
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« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2021, 01:45:51 PM »

Plenty. I live right next door to Lancaster County and Amish families have been buying old farms and other properties and moving east into Chester County for years now.
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« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2021, 05:20:17 PM »

In undergrad, there were...a bit of a ways north up the 81.

Now: No.
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« Reply #15 on: April 16, 2021, 10:06:39 PM »

Northern and Northeast Ohio? You bet we got Amish. None in the immediate area though, but they're not too far.
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« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2021, 01:10:15 PM »

There is a Mennonite Church by me, but not actual stereotypical people. Saw a car pull into it a few days ago.
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« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2021, 02:10:14 PM »

None that I know of. The most notable minority Christian group near me is a Mormon/LDS church.
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« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2021, 12:37:03 AM »

None in the Omaha metro, but the ones the OP mentioned are just a short drive away.
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