In my subdivision in a metro Atlanta county I the local power cooperative is replacing failed halogen/sodium/etc street lamps with LED.

The orange lights provided good light but the same pole with a LED now lights up the area as if it were full moon or close to it. You cannot look directly at these lights where you could at the older lights. I have an orange lamp in the corner of my lot but the nearest LED is about three hundred feet away and it still puts out more.

One oddity which I cannot completely attribute to the lights. Birds in our holly bushes were singing at very odd hours for the first weeks or two but have apparently moved to bushes and trees in the back yard.