There are quite a few people around, though most of my contact (and with relatively few people) is of the cyber variety. If you grace the chatroom from time to time at around 22.00 - 24.00 UK time, you should be able to meet up with quite a few people, some of whom are more involved with crowds of exers than I am.
Heh. I think I might have asked you this already but did you visit Joburg, South Africa for a while back in 1996? You would have been staying at Thaddeus and Esther's home, I think.