Office, Home and School - commute time considertaions

Hi I am moving to Malta quite soon and I need to

1) Set up and small office (10 people)
2) Find schools for the kids ( 4 and 6)
3) Find somewhere to live ( I can stay in Ghaxaq initially)

For the office I have been told its best to follow suit and I am looking at tax biex / Pieta. We're an IT company. Mainly because the commute by car would be so bad as central St. Julians.

For the schools were not close to a decision but would prefer private because of the opt out of Maltese as a language and religion. We're an Italian-English family so language focus is important.

As for living, we'll we'd prefer, quieter and less built up, a property with a pool and parking. We sure we wouldn't like to stay in a garden-less flat. We're more educated than money and rural than urban.

I am fairly familiar with Malta, I have been coming on holidays for about 20 years. But what I have no handle on is the daily commute times. I'd like to get ask, what are the daily commute times (at the worst possible time of day) by car from where you live to say Portomaso?

Also if you were me, where would you put your, office, kids and home?

If it helps ( please excuse the crassness) budgets are approximately; 1K for the office, 2K for the home and whatever it needs to be for the education.

Any advice/abuse welcome.

Thanks,

Joe

Apologies to the forum mods for collapsing these questions to a single post.