Major global DC travel/test issue (cultural/language)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It is very true that even without leaving NA there's a noticeable difference in dialect depending on where you go. I went to the South on a work trip recently and for the first time in my life felt like my relatively neutral (as American accents go) Californian-with-Midwestern-parents accent marked me as an outsider.

Try growing up in the south with 2 parents from Detroit. I have no discernable accent. It was very weird listening to some people talk lol.

[Myrany]

It is very true that even without leaving NA there's a noticeable difference in dialect depending on where you go. I went to the South on a work trip recently and for the first time in my life felt like my relatively neutral (as American accents go) Californian-with-Midwestern-parents accent marked me as an outsider.

Which is how I feel when I visit family in Michigan with my West Texas Accent.