Short answer: Same thing here. Never met another EU ava IRL, and get made fun of when I try to pimp it up.
I'll add an interesting (to me, anyway) anecdote about a real world example of just how small this world really is. I grew up in a small town of about 25k, and had a relatively small group of people I called friend. After joining the US Marine Corps, I moved some 1800 miles from home to Camp Pendleton, where my Wife worked in an off base hospital as an emergency room admissions clerk. She had one co-worker that I often heard about but never met until several months passed. When I did meet her, I remarked that her last name (which is very rare) is the same as a friend of mine in High school -- who turned out to be her older brother. If you are thinking "so what" after reading this, it may interest you to know that I have FOUR stories of running into someone that are either more bizzarre or more unlikely than this one. One of them involves the serendipitous recovery of lost medical data after 2 years, 2000 miles away (by running into 1 of just 2 people in the world with the knowledge -- who was visiting someone in a medical building I had been sent to). Another one involves running into a familiar face in a bar nearly half way around the world, someone I had met only once several years earlier.
My conclusion: the reason we live in "a small world" is because we connect very well in it, and the reason EU doesn't have this is that there is nothing small about our real world -- the (inflated) EU population isn't nearly large enough to overcome the odds of a coincidental/chance meeting very often.