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There are plenty of folks in Houston with a very HEAVY Texas accent. I suspect you could find yourself in a smaller town in Texas where it was much stronger. Houston is so larger and has folks from all over the US and Intl, so there are also plenty of folks that don't have an accent. I've got a buddy that's from New Caney (small town on the north side of Houston) that has no accent at all. Heck, I was born in FL, and then traveled because my dad was in the Navy, so I had little to no southern accent, but I think I've gained a very slight accent in the almost 20 years that I've lived in Houston.

It doesn't take 20 years to instill an accent. My wife had a friend that was very American, born in Kansas she thinks, and lived in Houston, who moved to the UK. She came back after 5-10 years and actually had a fairly British accent. It was very odd to hear.