The Residents Association of a Palma neighbourhood is calling on residents to tell on their neighbours if they are renting out their homes illegally to tourists. The Pere Garau area of Palma, just outside the city centre, only has a single home which can be rented out to tourists because its paperwork is in order and it has received the blessing of the Council of Mallorca tourism department.
Anti mass tourism march in Palma
Hundreds of people are marching through the streets calling for an end to mass tourism in Mallorca.
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Very Good , everyone watching each other and then Big Brother selects the complaints and the ones that reflect best the views and ambitions of his party’s political beliefs and people being accused of doing things which have no real base in proven truth for sure we have problems but this road is old school DDR stuff and could result in serious consiquences of mistrust of neighbors and past friends ,
TawnyErm... what??? One of the famous attractions of Spanish life is the laid back nature here. Nobody really cares much about what their neighbours are doing. Michael Douglas mentions this often. He can go out to a cafe anywhere without being mobbed or paparazzi chasing him. Nobody really cares much. And he's not the only one who's pointed that out. And while autocratic regimes do indeed encourage their people to rat each other out, it's precisely that which has influenced Spanish culture to keep to themselves. They hated Franco, and learned to keep their mouths shut. And actually, what you describe is more of a German thing. Germans are famously (and sometimes irritatingly) clean, orderly and rules-oriented (but that's what makes them highly desirable tourists). Leave your rubbish bins out of order? Park at a slight angle on the street? Have a couple people over for drinks on the terrace after 10:00pm? The police will likely show up soon in response to a complaint from a neighbour. "Look, it's written here - you can't do that". Having said that, like others, the many Germans who move here are attracted by precisely that relaxed Spanish lifestyle. They're tired of the inflexibility and "neidigkeit" they live with in Germany. And for anyone who's previously lived in Germany, to experience the character adopted by many Germans who now live here is pretty refreshing. "scheißegal".
Tawnysorry????
clare cairnsOh meow!!!! Better bitchin' than two birds!!!!
The snitching culture is the one thing i really can't stand in Mallorca (and Spain). I was told it hails back to the Franco days... It's a toxic approach as it makes people even less trusting of one another and causes yet further divisions.... but i guess thats the name of the game, sadly.
Lisa Julia"Just needs to amend squatters rights". Sure, they have had years to do it - but haven't. I assume it's a Spanish law and Mallorca alone can't change it.
The prosecution rests, your honour, on the grounds that it would be professionally and legally unethical to continue to encourage the defendant to incriminate himself so unwittingly. Mercifully, we ask the court to refrain from further judgement, as the defendant has already suffered severe embarrassment as a result of his apparent condition.
Just want to say to Morgan and Richard,,,,now now boys
Morgan WilliamsYou don’t like being proven wrong, do you ? The DB expert on property rentals and everything else in between has never heard of WhatsApp. Nowhere did I say that he was a close friend. I know him through a property deal I helped him with and have remained in contact. I fail to understand why a German speaker can’t live and work in a French speaking part of Switzerland. Are you suggesting there are no Welsh speakers living and working in England ? And by the way, I spent 3 years of my life living in Switzerland, still have family living there, so spare me the geography lessons please.. And no, he didn’t tell me you are full of sh.t, I did. I get the impression that you are really pissed off because someone besides yourself is successfully making a small, no risk return on his investment. I suppose you could call it AirBnb on a personal level. As to whether it is illegal, that’s up to him and the pertinent authorities to decide, and no one else. And lastly, I recommend that you read the article about “estate agents” in todays paper and how it describes how certain people are doing exactly the same thing he is doing but with other peoples property. End of.
Richard PearsonSo, you just happened to call your foreign friend this morning - in Florida or wherever - as soon as you read my post - the close friend you thought was German (because he speaks German?) as it turns out, comes from Lausanne (where they speak French) and you told him about all this, and he told you I'm full of shit? Very creative, Richard. And humourous too. You might consider taking a geography class and maybe study European culture a bit. And see a psychologist.