I don't think that any specific accent sounds necessarily "good" or "bad." Intonation has more of an effect, though in certain respects an accent may be related to the character.
As far as the sub-topic goes, I can definitely relate to that. It isn't just accent that I pick up. I've also noticed that I will shift my dialect, vocabulary, and sentence structure depending on my environment and the person I am speaking to. It isn't a process that I am aware of initially, but there have been a few times when I honestly had no idea what was going to come out of my mouth, whether it would be one accent or another, or even a mixture of accents. There have even been times when I've shifted unconsciously from one to another within the course of a single day.
It made me very self-conscious to think of that, and on those occasions I avoided speaking for a while.
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