What are the advantages and disadvantages of being Amish?

Answer 1

I see two advantages. You have your life style spelled out for you. No stress about what is right and wrong or what is proper or improper. Second advantage is the close community and family support.

Disadvantage, it's a hard way of life and difficult for anyone who is not born into it.

Answer 2

Aside from having to travel from one place to another in a horse-drawn carriage while seeing others around you zipping past in motorcars, having to yell really loud or at best use the pay phone at the end of the Amish community's driveway instead of having your own phone, work from sunup to sundown, not have running water to easily wash after working from sunup to sundown, not being able to flip a light switch instead having to light a candle, having to go to the bathroom in an outhouse and having to make your own clothes, nothing at all. They're surrounded by other like-minded honest people who apparently think that it's best that they don't use technology made after the mid-1800s or thereabouts. I like the communal aspect but don't see a need for the Luddite anti-technology aspect as it isn't technology itself that is evil. But they're entitled to their own beliefs as we all are.