What does he mean by this?

me and this guy were texting and he said something about going on a date, but he told me that day he was going to move back home, [from lpool to stoke] and i basically said whats the point if your going to be living in stoke, but told him not to take that in a bad way.. and he just said lol its fine, and then i said im curious, and he said 'it was just a cold hard fact'.. but dont quite get what he means by that... what is a cold hard fact?