I’m from Alabama with family in Texas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New Brunswick. The few times we’re all together we laugh at each other’s accents.
When I fly into NY I shift gears.
When I’m with my family and in-laws, cousins, forget it. I have to be so quick with a story, a point, an idea, a joke, or I’m shut out. There’s no “um, honey what year was that? How old was little Steviewhen this happened? We were in Italy, no no I think we were in Germany…”
Get to the freaking point.
My wife’s from North Carolina. She doesn’t have much of an accent unless she’s talking to her mother or other family on the phone, then the accent really comes out and takes a day or two to fade again.