I was stunned to hear from the realtor that her listing price would be 50k below mine, 100k below where it was appraised just over a year ago. The county raised the value of my house over the same period of time nearly 150k. My taxes have more than tripled in not quite five years. Yet, the value is somehow gone?

And with it my dream of fleeing a life where I just don't fit to find a new one in Appleton.

Do I sell, walking away with only 60K, not nearly enough mitigate housing costs in the new town? Or do I stay and continue to bang my head against the brink wall?