Is he asking because he recognizes Tim as a Gothamite, or because Gotham City is a major metropolitan area that is very similar to this world’s Central City?

It’s probably better to not assume this is 4D chess and act like they were never playing chess at all. “It reminds me a lot of Gotham, if Gotham were in the Midwest and obsessed with something called ‘hot dish’.”

Tim says the phrase with all the alien in flyover country distrust that he can muster; Conner Kent can’t lecture him about being weird about country folk when he’s doing it for a good cause. “And I’d know. I’m from Gotham.”