The thing with Vancouver, is the stuff outside Vancouver (the Island, Whistler, Squamish, plus some of my favourite drives I've ever done on the Island and the Sea to Sky) make the city itself just "Pretty Good". If we include that, then it's top tier easily.
Way too late, but ranking the NHL Cities I've been to:
Top Tier
Denver
Tampa
Boston
Chicago
Pretty Good
Columbus
Pittsburgh
Minneapolis
Vancouver
Seattle
The burbs are nice?
Detroit
Oh no
Ottawa
Buffalo
Newark
I've been to Montreal and Miami, but not enough time spent to rate.
where's the science in Star Wars? Other than oooh spaceships and energy weapons, there's nothing sciency about it. Compare that to Star Trek which always tried to have some threads of real science, especially in TNG.