I'd go with number 3.

My DS did a term of schooling in the UK before we moved back home.

When we arrived back, we couldn't move into our house for 6 months, so I drove him... 15-20 mins to the school we were going to be living near.

The driving was so so frustrating in the end. Dragging DD, feeling like id just get home from school drop off only to be getting back in the car and going back to pick him up. The fuel I was getting through was ludicrous... I never felt like I had any time with him either. We'd get home, dinner would have to start (unless I'd prepared it in between time, which then I wasn't spending time with DD).... So many things made me hate that drive.

I wanted to start as I meant to carry on with his schooling after moving from overseas and I only had to suck up that commute to school for 6 months.

He coped well changing schools (didn't think he would to be honest) from uk back to oz.... And now it's all over.

We are moving again though.... But from one street to the next, so same school and still no school driving commute, just a little walk. If I hadn't found a house where I could do that, we were going to be knocking our house over and building right where we are. My pre-requisite for buying another house was that I didn't want to have to drive to school. I won!