So, I was born in Michigan, and moved when I was 2/3. I lived in Southern California most my life and moved to San Francisco a few years ago.
My accent is something like Californian with a little Canadian twinge (I say "bayg" for bag or "draygon" for dragon and a few other odd words with A's or E's.).

EVERYONE THINKS I"M FOREIGN!
It's starting to become hilarious. Yesterday someone asked where I was from and I told them and asked what they thought. They said I sounded Norwegian... WHAT!?

I have had many many people I work with tell me I sound Irish. At first I thought it was just because we hire a lot of Irish folk (and I'm pasty white), but then some strangers at In-N-Out asked me if I was Irish.

I've had people say I sounded Russian to Dutch to a few other really random European countries. I've only had ONE person proclaim I sounded Canadian when they thought I was from somewhere else.

Just thought this was funny. Most of you have never heard me speak, but... I imagine the vast majority of you would say I sounded VERY American (ask ~Hyunthesosarian). I really can't figure out why so many people keep assuming I'm so foreign.
I even had one Brazilian guy tell me "Maybe people just assume you can't be American because you're not rude!"
... THANKS buddy.

(On the flipside of this, my friend Nat's Russian coworker was asking him how I got such an American accent because he thought I had to be Dutch. ... now that's just confusing)