Shard

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...the-mennonites

Mennonites on the move ! It's those bloody ex-Londoners (etc) moving into their back yard and jacking up property prices. Nevertheless, good for Atlantic Canada to get some inward migration.

Partially discharged

Interesting article. Upstate New York (St Lawrence County especially) has a number of Mennonites living there. Not sure where they came from originally. I've been in a few homes that they have built (with literally nothing in the way of drawings) in that area and they are beautiful

BristolUK

We can't do it on our own.
We wanted a place with a strong community

dbd33

I see myself as a provider of employment, an asset to the Mennonites. Do you know how much back breaking toil I have given their child labourers?

The article interested me too though I felt it conflated issues affecting many people (loss of farmland, barriers to entry in agriculture) with those of concern only to the religious (legal requirements that children be educated, access to healthcare for non-taxpayers).

Something quite odd is that, since we've relocated the horses from being 20 minutes one way from the house to 20 minutes the other way, we no longer see horses and carts en route, it's all Audis now. Zipless clothes are out, tats are in.