It takes about 51 minutes to reach Brussels with your car. Charleroi is 31 minutes away by car. Mons is only 14 minutes away by car. Only 17 minutes are needed to reach La Louvière with your car.
The closest bus lines are TEC Hainaut - 14B - Mons - Ghlin (Busteau) - Mons, TEC Hainaut - 14/ - Mons - Ghlin (Place), TEC Hainaut - 19 - Mons - Jemappes with a stop reachable in fewer than 5 minutes as a pedestrian.
You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Mons - Gare" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 18 minutes away by bike. The nearest train station is "Ghlin": reachable in 4 minutes by car, or 24 minutes by public transport. You only need 5 minutes to reach the motorway A7 / E19 - E42 (Halle - Nivelles - Mons - (Valenciennes, France)). Do you have an electric car or plan to have one? The nearest charging station ("Imagipark") is only 7 minutes’ drive away.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Carrefour Market Ghlin" (6 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Proxy Ghlin" (11 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Louis Delhaize Mons-Total" (9 minutes by car).
The nearest nursery is called "Nathalie Barbieux" and is 22 minutes' walk away. There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Ecole Fondamentale Libre Saint-Louis", 9 minutes away by bike. Centre Scolaire Don Bosco is the most convieniently located high school: just 3 minutes away by bike.
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