Our house is situated on a hill near a great wooded area. The direct neighborhood is very quiet. There a 3 supermarkets very close ( 10 minutes to walk and maybe 3 or 4 minutes by car). We also have a busstation and a trainstation very close.
There is a great restaurant called " Mühlenhelle" - an excellent gourmet restaurant - only 6 minutes away by walking, and lots of other restaurants which you can reach by car in gummersbach (8-10 minutes away).
You have to watch this Video:

https://youtu.be/K7fRIESb5SA

In the neighborhood (everything around us, which you can reach in about 15-20 minutes and under):

- Cinema
- Shopping Center
- railroad museum (5 minutes away)
- Wildlife Park and Pony riding
- Stalactite Cave
- Castles ( a lot)
- dams (to go swimming)
- swimcenter
- Zoo
- an old brewery
- trails
- cycling tracks (also a cycling train path)
- open air museum
- several Golf courses ( http://www.gc-luederich.de/ )
( http://www.gc-schloss-auel.de/golfanlage )
( http://www.golfcluboberberg.de/ )
- Skatepark Wiehl (10 minutes by car)

A little bit more driving to go to:
- Skihalle Neuss (skiing) ( http://www.allrounder.de/ ) ( 50 minutes by car)
- Boulderhalle Wuppertal ( http://bouldercafe-wuppertal.de/boulderhalle/ ) (50
minutes by car)


There are a lot of big cities you can explore:

Cologne (20 minutes)
Bonn (45 minutes)
Frankfurt (1 Hour and 45 minutes)
Dusseldorf (1 Hour)
Wuppertal (1 Hour)

5 Hours by car to go to Berlin or Munich! 4 Hours to Hamburg! Great for a Weekend-Trip!

Its also only 3 hours by car to go to the netherlands!!!