For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Spar Hombeek" (24 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car), "Proxy Leest" (28 minutes by foot or 4 minutes by car), "Carrefour Express Oranje Mechelen" (9 minutes by car).
Kobos Secundair III is the most convieniently located high school: just 17 minutes away by bike. You can find a close preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool Sint-Niklaas", 4 minutes away by car. If you are looking for a nursery, "De Man Christa En Emily Vandewalle" it is 4 minutes away by car.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Hombeek Gare" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 14 minutes away by bike. Brussels Airport is 20 minutes’ drive away or reachable by public transport in about 84 minutes. In fewer than 12 minutes, you can find a charging station ("Egide Walschaertsstraat") for your electric car. In fewer than 5 minutes, by car, you can be at "Kapelle-Op-Den-Bos" train station. To reach A1 / E19 (Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerpen - (Breda, Netherlands)) you only need 8 minutes and A12 (Brussels - Boom - Antwerpen - (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands)) is reachable in 14 minutes.
In just 27 minutes by car you can reach Brussels. Only 26 minutes are needed to reach Antwerp with your car. In 51 minutes you can reach Ghent. Leuven is 34 minutes away by car.
You can access these bus lines: De Lijn - 288 - Mechelen - Londerzeel with a stop 14 minutes away by foot, De Lijn - 4 - Station - Battel - Leest with a stand 22 minutes’ walk away, De Lijn - 289 - Mechelen - Breendonk with a stop reachable in fewer than 24 minutes as a pedestrian.
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