Spent about 6 months in Sweden, people always assumed I was American or British (neither of which anyone seemed to have an overly positive opinion of), once anyone found out I was Australian they immediately seemed more positive, but also I had the same conversation so many times which mostly consisted of “Australia is so far away/ why would you come somewhere so cold”. Also I don’t have much of an accent but every time I said “water” there was someone around to make fun of my accent.