"Why people are getting the hell out of the Northeast"

Via Instapundit:  Last year, three states in the Northeast — New Jersey, New York and Connecticut — landed in the top five places people were moving out of fastest, according to 2017 data from United Van Lines. (The other two states on the list were Illinois and Kansas.) And data from Pew Charitable Trusts found that while people are all about moving to the South (their population grew by nearly 1.4 million people from 2014 to 2015) and the West (866,000 more people), the population growth in the Northeast is “sluggish.”

The Northeastern exodus is particularly acute in many big cities like New York City. Since 2010, more than 1 million people have moved from the New York area — which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island — to other parts of the country.

So why are so many Northerners packing their bags?

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Eighty Amish Men Move A House By Hand

Their religious beliefs preclude the use of cranes and tractors and other equipment.  When a house had to be moved onto a new concrete pad, the only way to move it was by hand.



Wasn't that something?  How about 120 Amish men moving a barn?




Holy yoder, batman!  Maybe the Amish built the pyramids.  You never know.  This took place in rural Dalton, Wisconsin.  An Amish man assembled a couple hundred neighbors to move his pole shed from one area of his farm to another.  As word spread it became a sort of event and quite a few spectators turned out.  This was the first time anything like this had been attempted in this settlement. Once the building was lifted it took maybe five minutes to actually move.

Kudos for the care with which the videos were made and edited.  The old order Amish  don't like to be photographed or videotaped.