'same house'

I grew up in Barnsley - a town in South Yorkshire UK and moved to New York eight years ago. I work as a contract attorney on a case by case basis. I started a new project last week with a group of attorneys I didn't know. Yesterday in conversation I found out the guy two seats away from me holds a UK passport. As the conversation transpires I find out he grew up in my home town. I'm struck by the coincidence. I ask him where he lived and he names the street where I lived until I was five. Then the number of the house - it's the same house where I lived until I was five. His family still own the house. We spent the first few years of our lives (he is 6 years younger than me) in the same house, went to the same nursery school, same primary school and both live in New York, both became attorneys and somehow out of many contract attorney projects found ourselves sitting two seats apart thousands of miles from our home town and house, working on the same case. There is also a bizarre name link. I've experienced many coincidences but this is probably the strangest yet.