This past week I took a twenty-four-hour road trip to Salt Lake City, Utah from my college town in Oxford, Mississippi. We went through several states including Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Kanas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. We started coming up with reasons why we couldn't move up north. A few of them are serious but most of them are kind of silly. Here are just a few reasons why some southerners would never survive living in the northern part of the United States.

1. Becoming a Real Life Dateline Horror Story

Your car breaking down on the highway in the middle of nowhere while its snowing forcing you to experience a dateline horror story. Most southerners don't know how to handle more than a couple inches of snow let alone a couple feet. Most of us wouldn't last ten minutes if we had to hike a mile through the snow in negative temperatures.

2. Salt Air Do Care

We are sure to be choking on the humidity in the south, but I wasn't prepared to cough up a lung because of all the salt in the air they use to melt the ice.

3. Can You Hear Me?

A lot of people in the south have CSpire, but won't be using it much longer if you move up north because you won't be getting any service. I was one 1x for most of our road trip and was only able to send text messages.

4. Cold, freezing, frigid

We don't know how to handle extreme cold; we just don't. The amount of times we asked each other how people live like this was insane.

5. I Can't Not Worry

We are always worried whenever we stop somewhere if our car will be trapped in the snow forever. We will also probably ask you a million times if you think the road conditions are safe or do you have chains on your tires.

6. Hat hair

This one is kind of silly, but you just don't have to wear a hat every day during winter in the south. I'm sure this isn't a big issue to native northerners, but our hair was starting to look a little nappy.

7. Altitude Poisoning

Randomly having nose bleeds? Not able to breathe? Vomiting? Sounds like a blast.