For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Delhaize Schoten" (10 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Carrefour Market Schoten Zaatstraat" (13 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Colruyt Schoten" (15 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car).
You can find a convienient nursery: "Chiki", 4 minutes away by foot. You can find a close elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool 2 - Sint-Cordula", in fewer than 1 minute by car. The closest preschool is named "Vrije Basisschool 1 - Sint-Cordula" and is 1 minute' away by car. The nearest high school is called "Sint-Cordula Instituut" and is 2 minutes' walk away.
Brussels is 43 minutes away by car. It takes approximately 36 minutes to reach Antwerp with your bike. It takes about 52 minutes to reach Ghent with your car. Mechelen is only 26 minutes away by car.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Wim Saerens" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 12 minutes away by bike. Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Markt Schoten") is just 1 minute away by car. The nearest train station is "Antwerpen-Noorderdokken / Anvers-Noorderdokken": reachable in 8 minutes by car, or 36 minutes by public transport. The nearest airport is Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) and is reachable by car in 11 minutes. The A1 / E19 (Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerpen - (Breda, Netherlands)) motorway is accessible in 4 minutes and A12 (Brussels - Boom - Antwerpen - (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands)) will take 7 minutes.
You can access these bus lines: De Lijn - 620 - Meerle - Hoogstraten-Antwerpen via Schoten Centrum, De Lijn - 629 - Schoten - Brecht - scholen Malle, De Lijn - 610 - Antwerpen - Oelegem with a stop reachable in fewer than 2 minutes as a pedestrian.
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