It's really easy buzzing around a well-lit city at night, thinking what a legend at night-flying you are.
Once you leave the limits and head off to the country, with the exception of clear skies and a bright moon, there will be precious few flights which, at some point enroute, would not fall beneath minima and be considered IMC.
It quickly becomes here-be-dragons country, and all the when-we stories doesn't change that.