Karla Andrade is a permanent teacher at a public school in Ibiza who takes 44 flights a month to go and teach, as it is cheaper than moving with her family from Palma to the tourist island. Tourism and the low supply of housing have resulted in successive increases in rent prices in Ibiza, forcing workers on the island to look for other alternatives, as obtaining medium and long-term rental contracts at affordable prices is increasingly difficult.
To do this, Karla Andrade, 36, gets up at 5am, takes the first 50-minute flight to Ibiza, teaches at a school close to the airport and returns to Palma in the late afternoon, she says in an interview with the agency of EFE news. She spends “600-800 euros per month” on flights, says the primary teacher, who has had this routine for a year and thus manages to save around a thousand euros on accommodation. In Palma, the capital of the Balearic Islands which is also a tourist destination in Spain, she pays the mortgage on the house where she lives with her husband and two children under the age of three.
“It’s complicated, demanding, tiring, but it’s true that I count on