How Has Your Accent Changed Over the Last Six or Seven Years?

Within the u k, you can travel ten kilometers between different villages and your accent completely changes to almost a different language. It's such a big thing that when people say british is, what do they mean? Do they mean like what you hear on b b c radio? People from newcastle or liverpool - it's totally different no matter where you go. You still have a tinge of sheffield accent. But how has your accent changed over the last, i guess, six or seven years you've not been in the u.K.