Is it his turn to be amused? "That's what they used to call it...over a hundred years ago. With the population coming together after the earthquake..." He shrugs a bit lightly, though something's already come to mind. "One of those differences, perhaps?"

If so...interesting. He wonders what sort of different path the city might have looked, if the immigrants hadn't taken it upon themselves to rebuild it properly prepared for such a catastrophe.