i'm going to spend the morning looking at listings and maybe make some calls around noon, if i find something.

but, the easy restatement of the logic is simply as follows:

1) can i find somewhere better? then, i'll take it.
2) if i can't find somewhere better, i'm hardly going to move to somewhere worse, so i'll appeal.

i do need to acknowledge that i am looking, though. that's a difference. it could take months to find something, but i am intending to eventually leave.

all of this other stuff is stalling, really.