The central coast resembles sydney circa 1930, including size and civilisation (some families even own one of those newfangled television thingies!). Lots of little hamlets tied together with really crappy roads that aren't capable of handling weekend traffic loads. And very little street lighting on those roads. One notable exception is my flat route from Gosford to Umina which has street lights almost all the way. Yay! As for country roads, that's what it's like. Climbo nearly hit a wallaby the other day!