Yes, the Medieval manors system were intended to be as self sufficient as possible.
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Medieval ladies usually lived in manor houses. Sometimes they lived in castles. Especially in the later part of the Middle Ages, some members of the nobility had town houses in towns or cities, so a few ladies lived in these.
In many medieval countries, farming was done mostly on manors, where peasant families lived and worked the land. The fields of the manors were divided up into strips, which were either communal or assigned to individual families to farm. They were sections of fields, usually long and relatively narrow.
Aside from pagans, nearly everyone in medieval Europe believed in the same God, who was the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Nobles didn’t move to towns, but towns built up around the castles and manors.