Duxnutz
"Well in the States you don't even have to do a NVFR rating! Hows that for safe?"
I do not know if your question was meant to be rhetorical or not?
Presuming that it was not, the answer is "extremely safe"
If you do not have a NVFR Rating, then I guess you do not consider yourself qualified to fly at night.
If you do have a NVFR Rating then the "Authorities" are saying to you, by default, "Go for it".
I spent many a year , with an instrument rating, flying Nomads around the NT, in all sorts of weather, to any port I was required to go into, aeromedical.
The scariest nights were those with no moon at all!!
It is extremely easy to get "the leans". For a novice it would without doubt lead to a bingle.
My vote is to get rid of NVFR and singles at night
IMHO