Williston oscillates between oil-boom transience and Williams County small-town permanence. Main Street rooms fill with workers who transferred in for the Bakken, while Downtown hosts the families who've been here for generations. West Williston draws the residential energy. Ray and Trenton add the rural layers. The comedy here reads the tension between extraction-economy rotation and prairie-town stability. Open mics become neutral ground where both identities converge. Comics who grasp Williston's dual rhythm find audiences relieved someone recognized the city keeps its railroad soul while the man-camps multiply along the highways.