Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe DETROIT, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Detroit's budget problems and crime rate are challenging civic boosters, and so is a new poll showing one-third of city residents would leave if they could. Half the people who said they would move out of Detroit said they would leave the state of Michigan entirely, rather than relocate to the suburbs. Advertisement About half the 400 respondents polled by the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV Tuesday said they felt the city is heading in the wrong direction. However, 64 percent of those asked said they planned to stay in the Motor City and 38 percent said the city was headed in the right direction. About 10,000 to 12,000 Detroiters pull up stakes and move out every year. The city's population is around 900,000, half of what it was in 1954. The telephone survey had a margin of error of 5 percentage points.
