You can find a convienient high school: "Provinciale Middenschool", 10 minutes away by foot. The nearest nursery is called "Sterrenkind" and is 4 minutes' walk away. You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Go! Freinetschool Villa Zonnebloem", 1 minute away by car.
Only 29 minutes are needed to reach Brussels with your car. In just 20 minutes by car you can reach Antwerp. Ghent is 53 minutes away by car. Leuven is only 29 minutes away by car.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Colruyt Mechelen (Liersestw)" (2 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Carrefour Market Mechelen Eikestraat" (7 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Delhaize Mechelen" (17 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car).
To reach A1 / E19 (Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerpen - (Breda, Netherlands)) you only need 2 minutes and A12 (Brussels - Boom - Antwerpen - (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands)) is reachable in 14 minutes. Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) is 16 minutes’ drive away or reachable by public transport in about 34 minutes. You can find a shared bike station at 25 minutes as a pedestrian: "Blue-Bike - Malines Veemarkt". The nearest train station is "Malines-Nekkerspoel / Mechelen-Nekkerspoel": reachable in 3 minutes by car, or 21 minutes by public transport. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Brico Mechelen-Noord") is only 2 minutes’ drive away. You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Lijsterstraat" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 7 minutes away by foot.
There are multiple bus lines close by: De Lijn - 552 - Mechelen Gandhi - Elzestraat, De Lijn - 551 - Mechelen Gandhi - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, De Lijn - 558 - Mechelen - Waver Scholen with a stand 2 minutes’ walk away.
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