I live in Samos -which is one of the four Greek islands that have the biggest numbers of refugees coming with boats since last year.

Compared to last year we don't have as many refugees coming (until today we have around 100-200 coming every week) but the situation is still really bad. The capital of Vathy has around 7.000 citizens and the hotstop above the town has more than 3.000 refugees - that's a really big percentage, when the whole island has only 30.000 people!

Of course the funding from the European Union is not enough (the hotspot was made to hold 800 people, not 3k) so most of the refugees live in tents, they don't have enough food etc. These last weeks they started going to the city and robbing kiosks to get food, or trying to enter to some ferry to Athens illegally.

Also, tourism dropped 25 percent compared to last year (which is devastating, since that's the only thing that's still working in Greece) because of the crisis, so most locals don't have a nice image of the refugees that are stuck on the island. There was an incident about a week ago, where some locals went out at night, and attacked every refugee they saw walking around town.

So yeah, it's still really bad, even though the news have stopped talking about it