For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Proxy Rabot" (11 minutes by foot or 5 minutes by car), "Carrefour Express Gent Burgstraat" (9 minutes by foot or 6 minutes by car), "Bio-Planet Gent" (10 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car).
Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Gent Karel Waeriplein") is only 1 minute’ drive away. To reach A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende) you only need 8 minutes and A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) is reachable in 10 minutes. The nearest train station is "Gent-Dampoort / Gand-Dampoort": reachable in 8 minutes by car, or 20 minutes by public transport. About 2 minutes bike away, you will find the "Cambio - Watt" station.
If you are looking for a nursery, "Sophie De Woelmuis" it is 6 minutes away by foot. You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Stedelijke Basisschool Jenaplanschool Hippo'S Hof", 6 minutes away by car. Het Spectrum Gent is the most convieniently located high school: just 2 minutes away as a pedestrian.
There are multiple bus lines close by: De Lijn - 65 - Gent Sint-Pietersstation - Zomergem - Ursel, De Lijn - 67 - Gent Sint-Pietersstation-Zomergem-Waarschoot-Eeklo, De Lijn - 53 - Gent Zuid - Ertvelde - Bassevelde with a stand 4 minutes’ walk away. The closest tram lines are De Lijn - 4 - Ledeberg -Gent Sint-Pieters-UZ, De Lijn - 4 - In/Uitrij tramlijn 4 v/n GBR112 via Ledeberg+Muide with a stop 4 minutes away by foot.
In 44 minutes you can reach Brussels. Antwerp is 48 minutes away by car. It takes about 33 minutes to reach Bruges with your car. Aalst is only 28 minutes away by car.
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