From where I am sitting the Amish are "moving" primarily because new opportunities are not opening up fast enough when an Amish (or Mennonite) couple has 6 plus kids with themselves being around age 20 or less when that process starts. If the "English" were dropping like flies then it might be possible but like a friend and myself noted it would barely take a generation or two for the Amish or Mennonites to totally occupy our township leaving no opportunities at all for new families if the cards fell their way. I have yet to hear of some Amish or Mennonite leaving strictly because the pastures are greener elsewhere. Now if the milk market keeps eroding then yes they may have no choice to close up and move out because in a lot of cases they are on the poorer ground that straight corn/soybeans will not pay enough to make a living.
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Today's Featured Article - Reflections of the Fifties - by "Country" Elliott. I remember rowing up in the 1950�s in a small, rural town in northwestern New Jersey. The closest town to ours was only 3 miles away, and there were seven dairy farms in the areas of these two country towns. We had 5 acres, and because my Dad was a salesman and not a dairy farmer, he let the Bockovens, who owned the Willow Tree Dairy farm most of our land.
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