"It isn't as if stability is easy to come by at the moment."

It's an inelegant way to say same. Alucard knows that the concept will be impossible for a long while more, and he cannot say that it is a fact he cares for. A home city, that is the first thing that can be focused on. His family's estate is too far from the center of Krimnos, and so that means setting up within those borders first.

"That, I imagine, is part of the curse of these new natures of ours."