Farms tend to be lived on. When a farm is lost, it's not just the family business going, but the longtime family home and maybe recreation area. I'd think it's

Farms tend to be lived on. When a farm is lost, it's not just the family business going, but the longtime family home and maybe recreation area. I'd think it's more emotionally negative than the closure of the family mine, steel mill, or other such businesses where (typically) you don't have generations of children growing up on-site, playing around, and developing fond childhood memories. It's not just the dangerous workplaces that will have a reduced family connection when compared to a farm. Generations of kids probably won't spend as much time in the family medical clinic, law office, bank, design firm, etc. as they would on the family farm. Maybe this is closer to the emotional negativity of losing a farm: after clientele dwindles, the multigenerational family restaurant with an upstairs flat has to be sold off. The family must move away, and now the space is an Applebee's.