"It makes it different, being here, doesn't it?" A city that feels like a city, she means; they don't have those any more where she's from, not really, and the strangest parts of Baedal for Ilde are the simplest, the fact of its ability to maintain some basic standard of normalcy. So the cabs are horse-drawn and the woman that does her nails has horns and there's a 'city network' - the point is that she can make an appointment and get in a cab and have her nails done. She pays bills, and she has a job, and that's so much weirder than politicking in vampire bars.

In fairness, Ilde is a little warped.