I have noticed over the last few years that my hodge-podge of rural Midwestern accents have started getting more prominent in increased social isolation after COVID. And this is after kind of working to have a more "neutral" and professional accent for work and there being things that I say that nominally native English speakers (Brits, Californians, etc.) had a hard time understanding. Just wondering if other people here noticed similar things with themselves.
Same! I was single for the first time since high school, and I had become a god damn social butterfly. I was going out like 3-4 nights a week, constantly doing new stuff. Then the pandemic said “Get back in your shell!!”