"Most people don't get rid of their foreign sounding accent because they don't work on improving their accent." Taking on enough of a local accent to be unders

"Most people don't get rid of their foreign sounding accent because they don't work on improving their accent." Taking on enough of a local accent to be understood is good. Losing your accent is a terrible cost that requires hard work to achieve. Why would you work hard to hurt yourself? After all, chicks dig an accent.