So, at my usual glacial pace… I read the scripts for both episodes, and in "Brutal Youth" Clark says one of the benefits of the townhouse is that it's "in the city." That could either mean "in one of the boroughs of Metropolis" or "on New Troy Island," similar to the way New Yorkers sometimes refer to Manhattan as "the city."
Somehow I get the impression Clark meant on New Troy Island, but I couldn't explain why.
