"In Hadriel it would have. Here... I think it's still true, yeah. Hopefully. Since I have no idea where I'd wind up going next."

Does he love this city? No. But he has people here and is dead where he started out, so unless there's a guarantee he'd go back to Hadriel instead of home where he was no longer exists or starting over alone again in some other shitty situation? Might as well be with people he cares about.