I grew up in rural Western Illinois on the IL/IA border. I've been at college in Chicago for the last 5 years. People in Chicago say I have a country boy accent. People back home say I have a Chicago accent.
I guess I'm some sort of freak hybrid.
I have no place in this world.
On the Americans as tourists comment, yeah, we're jerks. Even when I went on a high school trip to Canada I noticed both chaperones and classmates alike were all acting like complete fools and it irritated me greatly.