After 35 years as an estate agent in the Balearic archipelago, Natalia Bueno is turning her back on Majorca because of rising prices and overcrowding. She will instead move to Galicia, the northwesternmost region on the Spanish mainland, as she says she "can't take it anymore." 

"I'm suffering from real estate pressure, and buying a rural property is beyond my purchasing power," Ms Bueno explained, according to the Majorca Daily Bulletin. "I'm also overwhelmed by overcrowding. So I'm leaving." She is convinced that many Majorcans will soon be doing the same and that there will be an exodus of islanders to the mainland in the future.