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by wahern 2377 days ago
1/3 compared to metro Atlanta. Metro Atlanta is 8,376 square miles, while San Francisco is a mere 49 square miles.

San Francisco is throwing up plenty of hotels. For example, almost 200 new rooms are coming with a new 800-foot tower that has just started construction: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/new-skyscraper-to-rise-in-ci...

There's a concerted media effort by conservative outlets to paint SF in a bad light. We have plenty of problems; plenty of self-made problems. But outsiders literally conspiring to harangue us says more about them than it does us.

Sources:

* 97,500 rooms in metro Atlanta. https://www.ajc.com/business/metro-atlanta-add-more-than-000...

* 34,000 rooms in San Francisco. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Like-r...

* 8,376 sq mi in Metro Atlanta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_metropolitan_area