Americans might like to visit Miami but few of them want to live there, a new poll by Zogby International shows.

Only three percent of respondents chose Miami when asked which of eight major U.S. cities they would like to live in. San Francisco led the pack with 13 percent followed by Chicago, Orlando, New York, Las Vegas and Houston.

Forty-nine percent of those surveyed had an unfavorable view of Miami, with a fear of crime dominating the reasons for people's negative impressions. Two thirds of those surveyed agreed with the statement "Miami is plagued by crime."

"Miami has a very good reputation as a vacation spot but it has had for a couple of decades a rough opinion when it comes to crime,