IT TOOK SASS COCKER A LITTLE WHILE to get used to living on a road without streetlights. Before she moved into her house in Anglesea, a small town on the Victorian coastline, she had spent years living and working in Melbourne. In the city, nightfall meant bright signs, squealing trams and tall buildings dotted with lit windows. Anglesea felt very different. “On my first night, it was dead silent and pitch black,” Sass says. “I got a bit creeped out.”
Now, after a year on the coast, Sass relishes how peaceful her house feels after dark. It’s just one of many reasons she’s happy she moved away from the big smoke. The decision was a big one, coming on the heels of
