“Not my Mallorca...”

“It’s not my Mallorca anymore, it’s not the Mallorca I knew and every time I return it gets worse. So I’m staying put, I shall retire elsewhere, I will visit but that’s it,” he told me.

I have two extremely proud Mallorca colleagues also nearing retirement and both have bought properties on the mainland to retire to, a move I would have never expected from either of them.
I even know of hoteliers who are worried about the impression guests may get during the peak of the saturated summer and never return.

The new government, however it is going to be formed, cannot afford to ignore the growing feeling of unhappiness amongst the local community - Mallorcans whose roots date back centuries on the island in particular - because they are in danger of damaging the social fabric. Someone is going to have to take a bold decision with regard to which direction Mallorca is going to go and cross their fingers that they don’t make the wrong one.