All my life people commented or made fun of my Portuguese accent. I'm from [way up in] the north but work in Lisbon and I don't need to utter more than a senten

All my life people commented or made fun of my Portuguese accent. I'm from [way up in] the north but work in Lisbon and I don't need to utter more than a sentence for people to start asking "where are you from?". It's a bit annoying and condescending because I know they immediately think I'm some sort of hick like the article mentions - "amiable but fundamentally unserious".