It was less the place and the people in it if Gladio was honest. The place, while nice, he could take or leave. It was knowing Eddie was somewhere relatively safer than where they'd been. And it was having Noctis there. Alive. "Different one," he answered. "Noctis. It's been - a while, since we've seen each other." Years at this point.
"So far it seems to be," but then who really knew in the long run.