Move to Tonberry on the Japanese servers, we have a healthy English community (around 60-70% players are English). You'll also get better ping, but the downside is that almost all players you meet through DF will be Japanese.

I really wish they'd give us Australians (and all Oceanic players so it's not completely dead) our own data centre. Even if it's hosted in Japan and has only 1-2 servers. =l