"We're in the colonies?" John likes to think that he manages to sound more 'surprised' than 'righteously indignant'. Though he's not trying to completely hide that there's a certain element of that involved.

He frowns at the window for a moment. This exactly why allowing 'independence' is a mistake. Probably.

He's also pretty sure that none of his enemies that come first to mind would pick the American colonies as a setting for their fake town. Not one that looked like this. It's not something he'd come up with, either, which again narrows the list of possibilities.