I think there are. This guy, and the people on the similar stories that are sometimes poste here on HN, are going it alone, or as a very small group of people, in the single digits at most. He's not joining a large, homogeneous, stable, long standing community. It's very different. Being born in an Amish community would be very different from being born as this guy's baby.
There's some that are quite well run. I wish I could find the link now, there was one in Appalachia which was doing quite well some years back.
While it doesn't count as non-religious, the Hutterites are quite interesting, as they are from another branch of the Anabaptist faith. And growing too, at a time where the Amish don't seem to be!
I've had a similar experience, but rather than a religion they've turned to homesteading and 'near-Amish' living-behavior.
It's kind of fascinating to me; it feels like another fork one can take in response to burnout -- something I know they all ran into at one point or another.
I've heard of people moving into their communities and converting, but "the Amish" are not like some hippie commune you can simply "join". Most real estate in Amish areas is prime farmland and not cheap.
There are tons of successful long term non religious cooperative living arrangements of various sorts but yeah most not fully isolated substance farming because that is hard.
Amish communities also aren't self sufficient though. They'll happily sell and buy goods with outsiders and even sell amish furniture via websites (not sure if they use an intermediate). A ton shop at the Costco near me.
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