Send the Amish to New Orleans

As a recovering Pennsylvania resident I am quite familiar with the raising of roofs done by the Amish and Menonite communities. Yes, you're thinking, PA is only made up of two cities on each side and a vast vast wasteland in between, well, you're semi correct but also very naive. I do, however, feel as though you could drop PA below the Mason-Dixon line and the adjustments would be minimal. The sheer difference though, is that while many New Yorkers believe that people outside of NY are all hicks, this is not the case. People choose to be hicks, I did not choose to be a hick.

Regardless, the Amish and Menonites make awesome ass pies and they have a shitload of organically grown produce that would rock Whole Foods any day. Suck that! Not the point.

The point is, the fact that all these people just dropped what they were doing and migrated to this house that was just hit by a hurricane, rebuilt it, and were done within less than a day is effin amazing. Does this not give head to the fact that perhaps antiquated lifestyles are still flourishing with strong-knit communities? And im not talking about the communities you see on Extreme Makeover Home Edition, because, let's be honest, they may just be paid extras.

Job Description: Extra on Makeover show
Part: Happy neighbors in small town looking to make unknown families lives better
Requirements: Must wear ugly blue or red shirt with show logo on it, must be able to jump up and down and scream "Move that Bus" on command, and last but not least, must be able to pretend as though you really do care about someone getting an enormous house and that you are going to return home to your hole in the wall, rat infested, heap of living quarters.

Additional note: You must be ok with crying

Here is my advice: Round up all the Amish people, send them to New Orleans, throw in some bowling, a kid witnessing a murder, a fat actress and a recovering coke addict who incessentaly plays santa-tranformation movies, and Ty smith and voilà! You have a newly built city and everyone wins because houses are built and the boundaries between Amish and non-Amish will be broken and Hollywood will no longer make shitty movies about their culture that is completely irrelevant and most likely more innacurate than kids shooting their friends after they smoked a joint.

Can you guess how many pop culture references were made? Who cares.

Moral: Electricity and automobiles are so overrated