Lacey triangulates between Olympia's capital gravity, JBLM military transience, and suburban autonomy. Martin Way rooms fill with base families rotating through, while Hawks Prairie hosts the commuters who work in the capital. Woodland District draws the established residents. Tanglewilde and Lacey Town Center add the residential layers. Panorama City keeps the working-class roots. The comedy here navigates the tension between institutional rotation and suburban permanence. Open mics become the space where all three identities sit together. The comics who honor Lacey's specific Thurston County position find audiences grateful someone understood the city isn't Olympia—it's the buffer that became its own place.