You shouldn’t accept that…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth
Near Earth’s surface, gravitational acceleration is approximately 9.81 m/s^2, which means that, ignoring the effects of air resistance, the speed of an object falling freely will increase by about 9.81 metres per second every second.
A picture showing the variation from the standard g depending on where in the world you are…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GRACE_globe_animation.gif