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Working problems is a crucial part of learning mathematics. No one can learn topology merely by poring over the definitions, theorems, and examples that are worked out in the text. One must work part of it out for oneself. To provide that opportunity is the purpose of the exercises.
James R. Munkres
If a space is locally compact Hausdorff then it is completely regular and being second-countable implies being metrizable. At the same time a locally compact metric space does not have to be second-countable (at least I do not remember we proved anything like that). For a metric space being separable, Lindelöf or second-countable is equivalent. So, we need an example of a locally compact metric space which is neither one (it can still be first-countable). I know couple spaces that are first-countable but not separable, Lindelöf or second-countable. Both are Hausdorff and locally compact. The first is , not metrizable (§28, page 181: it is limit point compact but not compact). The second is a discrete uncountable space, metrizable.