Boise absorbed a decade of California license plates and kept its personality—mostly. Downtown rooms fill with tech workers who discovered affordable housing and Idahoans who remember when that phrase wasn't ironic. North End draws the artists who arrived early. Hyde Park hosts the families who never left. Bench and West Boise watch the construction cranes multiply. The comedy here navigates resentment and welcome simultaneously. Open mics demand knowing which Boise filled the room. The comics who make both groups laugh without mocking either find something rare: audiences united by geography if nothing else.