My council are also started turning off their lights during the night. I understand it but I hate it. I feel sorry for the dude across the street that now comes

My council are also started turning off their lights during the night. I understand it but I hate it. I feel sorry for the dude across the street that now comes home from work in the dark. Personally I feel a lot less secure now staring out in the darkness with a lot of houses and people nearby but we can't see them. I think in more suburban and rural setting this might make sense, but this is still in the town with many people so it makes little sense to me. I think partially the problem is people(us) have designed their lighting and safety around the street lights being on, and now they are not it is an issue. I have lived in other countries where the norm is for houses to have subtle outside lights that are permanently on at night. But around here they do not and people are more paranoid so all the terraced houses instead have over-active motion sensors with massive flood lights. That are now very noticeable when a poor late night clubber/shift worker/early morning dog walker/baker etc walks by...