For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Lidl Bouffioulx" (10 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car), "Delhaize Bouffioulx" (9 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car), "Carrefour Market Mestdagh Chatelet" (12 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car).
A SNCB station ("Châtelet") is located 8 minutes away by bike, or 4 minutes by car. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is 13 minutes’ drive away or reachable by public transport in about 61 minutes. You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Tumelaire" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 25 minutes away by bike. Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Rivage De Boubier") is only 4 minutes’ drive away. To reach A54 / E420 (Nivelles - Charleroi) you only need 9 minutes and A15 / E42 (La Louvière - Charleroi - Namur - Liège) is reachable in 10 minutes.
You can find a convienient nursery: "La Claire Fontaine", 13 minutes away by foot. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Groupe Scolaire Grand Chêne", 2 minutes away by bike. Institut Saint-Joseph is the most convieniently located high school: just 5 minutes away by bike.
In 53 minutes you can reach Brussels. It will take you 27 minutes to get to Charleroi by bike. Only 29 minutes are needed to reach Namur with your car. Mons is 41 minutes away by car.
The closest bus lines are TEC Charleroi - 18 - Jumet (Dépôt)-Charleroi Sud-Châtelet (Chavepeyer), TEC Charleroi - 155 - Gilly - Châtelet - Tamines - Velaine - Châtelet, TEC Charleroi - 28 - Châtelineau (SNCB) - Jumet (Madeleine) with a stop reachable in fewer than 7 minutes as a pedestrian.
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