I did talk to the gal who did the valuation. Got it reduced a little but they have tables they have to follow and a small 1-bedroom house right across the highway from my 6-bedroom home sold for close to $200,000 IIRC. It’s the inflation of property prices that is eating us alive, and I think a lot of that has to do with the illegals taking up the housing.
I’m thankful not to be in an urban area, although in some ways I think urban folks are more free than I am here. The people who enforce the “nuisance property” laws here are absolutely anal, so I’m having the costs of home ownership but basically having the freedom of a renter since they can demand that I change anything according to their mere whims. If the police chief doesn’t like my marigolds he can call it “useless vegetation” and make me get rid of it, even if I think it’s pretty and it repels bugs. And it would not be out of character for him to do something like that.