For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Carrefour Express Zoerle Parwijs" (5 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Okay Tongerlo" (4 minutes by car), "Ad Heultje" (4 minutes by car).
It takes about 48 minutes to reach Brussels with your car. In 32 minutes you can reach Antwerp. Leuven is 30 minutes away by car. It takes about 36 minutes to reach Mechelen with your car.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Westmeerbeek" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 23 minutes away by bike. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Vrijetijdscentrum "de Mixx"") is only 4 minutes’ drive away. The A13 / E313 (Antwerpen - Hasselt - Liège) motorway is reachable in 11 minutes. A SNCB station ("Booischot") is located 46 minutes away by bike, or 13 minutes by car.
You can access these bus lines: De Lijn - 946 - Belbus Herentals-Westerlo-Olen-Hulshout-Wiekevorst, De Lijn - 514 - Hulshout-Booischot-Westmeerbeek-Westerlo Scholen, De Lijn - 510 - Mechelen - Heist-op-den-Berg - Westerlo - Geel with a stop reachable in fewer than 5 minutes as a pedestrian.
You can find a convienient nursery: "Kribbelkrab", 28 minutes away by foot. You can find a close high school: "Go! Daltonatheneum Het Leerlabo", in fewer than 5 minutes by car. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Vrije Basisschool - De Springplank", 1 minute away by bike.
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