‘It’s totally broken down’: tourism surge forcing Ibiza’s workers to live in car parks
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A deluge of visitors has locked locals out of the housing market - and protests are growing across the Balearics In a hot, dusty car park within sight of Ibiza’s old town, but a world away from the Balearic island’s hedonistic clubs and bougainvillaea-fringed villas, Ami Mohamed-Ali sits in his van, patiently brewing the first of three late-afternoon cups of strong tea.“The first glass is bitter like life,” says the 33-year-old seasonal worker from Western Sahara, quoting an old refrain. “The...

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