Found this via obsessivetendancies.net. I wish I could put my finger on what it was I liked so very much about this-- I think it had a lot to do with Dom's self-awareness, the way he knows that it's the dream he loves, particularly:

Dom is in love with possibility. He is in love with new beginnings. He takes his dreams and other people's dreams and makes them into one big beautiful picture, and he is in love with this also. He knows this. He's self-aware to a fault.

Seems very real, as does the realization of why he likes Vancouver.