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NeighborhoodScout.com has used their matching function to find neighborhoods that are “discount equivalents” of some of the hot and expensive communities we recently covered in our Most Costly Zip Codes estates.

Today we’re looking at a discount equivalent for expensive Palm Beach, Florida. The pick is Delray Beach, which is also in Palm Beach country. Palm Beach has a median price of $3.02 million but Delray Beach has a median price of just $1.3 million. Delray Beach doesn’t have the tradition that Palm Beach does but it is a growing community with many restaurants and entertainment options. It is also a community where the prices are a little bit lower than Palm Beach, even though the trend is definitely upward in this area.

Case in point, today’s estate one of the new massive estates which are going up in the area. This one spans two deepwater lots on a prized corner. The home is similar to other extravagant homes in this area with an impressive foyer that includes a marble fountain, spiral staircase with iron railings and a big chandelier. The 21,000-square-foot home has a very big master suite and five other bedroom suites. Other rooms include a media room and staff quarters. The exterior includes a summer kitchen, fireplace, pool and cabana. It’s very high-priced at $19.7 million but cheaper than the home we looked at in Palm Beach which was listed at $25.75 million and wasn’t quite so over the top. Although that home is primely located right on the ocean. We also covered a home in Delray Beach previously that’s quite a bit different, a slice of modern priced at just under $5 million.

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This is National Small Business Week. In honor of this important week for small business owners, here’s how Baby Boomers rank as small business owners.

Some interesting stats on “older” business owners show that we are the people who are driving the workforce. This disproves the myth that we’re retiring to just sit around.

Entrepreneurship among seniors is growing. In 2002, the rate of self-employment for the workforce was 10.2 percent (13.8 million workers), but the rate for workers aged 50 was 16.4 percent (5.6 million workers). Even though those age 50 made up 25 percent of the workforce, they comprised 40 of the self-employed. Solo business formation in the future will be driven by people who take early retirement or whose jobs just disappear.

(Source: AARP/Rand Corp. “Self-employment and the 50 Population”)

So if you’re a victim of age discrimination, begin your own business.

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