‘I have no neighbours’: overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit | The Guardian

What it like living in a building where most of the apartments have been converted into short-term rentals for tourists (alojamento local here in Portugal)?

Well, one elderly woman Lisbon told The Guardian that when her husband took a fall in their apartment and she wanted to get a neighbor to help lift him, there was no one to ask, so she called the fire brigade.

“We should be a kind of social network,” Maria told The Guardian. “And that social network doesn’t exist.”

Here’s to Facebook being capable of replacing that…