You can find a convienient high school: "Go! Atheneum Mariakerke", 20 minutes away by foot. You can find a close nursery: "Het Hartenboompje", in fewer than 2 minutes by car. You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Go! Basisschool De Wijze Eik Mariakerke", 3 minutes away by car.
The A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende) motorway is accessible in 5 minutes and A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) will take 9 minutes. You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Mariakerke Post" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 9 minutes away by bike. In fewer than 5 minutes, by car, you can be at "Drongen / Tronchiennes" train station. Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Partago Rodeberg") is just 3 minutes away by car.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Spar Drongen Beekstraat" (17 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Carrefour Market Mariakerke-Gent" (27 minutes by foot or 4 minutes by car), "Lidl Gent - Mariakerke" (28 minutes by foot or 4 minutes by car).
Brussels is 41 minutes away by car. It takes about 48 minutes to reach Antwerp with your car. Only 8 minutes are needed to reach Ghent with your car. In 31 minutes you can reach Bruges.
The closest bus lines are De Lijn - 930 - Minder Mobielen Gent, De Lijn - 18 - (Merendree)-Drongen Luchteren - P+R Oostakker, De Lijn - 9 - Mariakerke Post-Gentbrugge Groeningewijk with a stop reachable in fewer than 6 minutes as a pedestrian.
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