Powell buffers between Columbus metropolitan gravity and Delaware County small-town identity. Liberty Street rooms fill with professionals who discovered the school district, while Downtown hosts the families who remember when this was farmland. Olentangy draws the established residents. Lewis Center and Delaware-adjacent add the residential layers. The comedy here reads the tension between metro proximity and village permanence. Open mics become the space where both identities converge. Comics who grasp Powell's dual rhythm find audiences relieved someone recognized the town keeps its crossroads character while the subdivisions multiply around it.