Martinsburg calibrates between DC metropolitan gravity and Berkeley County Appalachian identity. Downtown rooms fill with commuters who work in the capital but chose Eastern Panhandle affordability, while Spring Mills hosts the families navigating development. Inwood draws the working-class energy. Queen Street and Foxcroft add the residential layers. The comedy here navigates the tension between metro proximity and mountain-state permanence. Open mics become the space where both identities sit together. The comics who honor Martinsburg's specific position find audiences grateful someone understood the city isn't DC—it's the Panhandle that stayed West Virginia.