http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29315820
(Please also watch the other videos about the place on the top right-hand corner)
Housing affordability and homelessness. Check.
Some members being elitist and having a sense of entitlement after the city receives accolades from elsewhere. Check.
Lots of diversity. Check.
Tree-hugging community of pot-smokers. Check.
Expensive and the pricing out of the middle-class. Check.
Rapid growth. Check.
I like the sub-title "The downsides to living in so-called paradise" (which can only be seen from the BBC News front page). Nonetheless the same problems we see in Vancouver can be found not just in Boulder, but in other cities renowned in livability.
(Melbourne, yep. Geneva and Vienna, don't even go there.)
The only differences I can think of are the public transportation use between VanCity and Boulder, and that Vancouver is not crowded for a big city (unless you move in from Yellow Grass, SK), albeit there are definitely crowds here.
Even in Denver in general, during my short stay on my grand road trip to Toronto via the American Midwest and the East (all the way to Rhode Island) in 2008, there was a sense of progressiveness from my casual chatter with locals. Before I began my road trip, my only knowledge about Colorado back then was its relative location to conservative Kansas (which was my next stop via Abilene [hometown of Dwight Eisenhower] and Topeka).