It's not hard to come up with other places that are vastly more tolerant of newcomers.

Consider, for example, Houston. Houston issued permits to build 64,000 new homes in 2014. SF issued permits for 3800, and California as a whole issued 83,000.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/hou...

http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/20...

In fact, Texas issued more new housing permits than CA, NY, NJ and MA combined.

http://www.census.gov/construction/bps/txt/tb2u2014.txt

Or did you just mean abstract tolerance of certain socially approved groups as opposed to the real humans who want to move in?

You gotta imagine it from an old-time SF residents perspective, though.

A lot of people have seen their friends get pushed out by the rent situation, and slowly, places like the Castro are becoming less beacons of the gay pride community and more like another up-and-coming hip place to be.

It's not intolerance to be annoyed by it, a lot of the residents of the city loved the city for its culture but now there's so many tech bros in the land that the culture is being displaced.

The world's in flux, so tough shit, but as both a native to the area and a tech worker, in my opinion, this city is becoming less open minded.

I mostly agree. Although I'd say it's radically tolerant in some ways and very intolerant in others. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that most inhabitants are very tolerant and a few extremists are not.