For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Carrefour Express Bazel" (2 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Ad Kruibeke" (23 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Okay Hemiksem" (21 minutes by car).
In 44 minutes you can reach Brussels. In just 19 minutes by car you can reach Antwerp. Ghent is 37 minutes away by car. Mechelen is only 28 minutes away by car.
The A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) can be reached in 7 minutes, and the slip road to A12 (Brussels - Boom - Antwerpen - (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands)) is just a 17 minute drive away. You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Centre Hoboken" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 76 minutes away by foot. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Cleydael Golf & Country Club") is only 18 minutes’ drive away. Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) is 18 minutes’ drive away or reachable by public transport in about 55 minutes. A SNCB station ("Hemiksem") is located 30 minutes away by bike, or 21 minutes by car.
You can access these bus lines: De Lijn - 99 - Hamme - Temse - Rupelmonde - Antwerpen L.O, De Lijn - 97 - Sint-Niklaas - Tielr - Temse - Rupelm - A'pen L.O, De Lijn - 280 - Belbus Beveren - Kruibeke - Temse with a stop reachable in fewer than 2 minutes as a pedestrian.
If you are looking for a nursery, "De Dol-Fijntjes" it is 19 minutes away by foot. You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool", 1 minute away by car. Sint-Jorisinstituut is the most convieniently located high school: just 1 minute away by bike.
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