Refugee thread!

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My husband is from South Carolina.  He was raised in Columbia SC and his family still lives there.  He's an actor so he had to lose his accent.  It helped that  he went to  University of Southern California and came out talking like a Californian. But when he travels back to see his family and if he's there for more than a week he comes back with a full-on South Carolina accent.  

Hey, I've lived near Columbia, SC for 15 years now. Moving to Ohio for work in a few months though. I always liked to believe I wasn't adopting an SC accent but sometimes I hear it in my voice, especially when I'm tired/lazy and slurring words. And I pretty much never say the g on -ing words. And say y'all a lot.

I lived in the Columbia area for nearly 20 years...didn't pick up much of that accent and lost most of it pretty quickly when I moved.  Might be because I hated SC so much and was so happy to see it in my rear view mirror.