Andrea, 28, creates video skits about the differences between the US and the UK. She grew up in California, attended a university in England, and has officially lived in London since 2023. Andrea's move from California to England around a decade ago led to getting a university education, falling in love, and finding inspiration for US vs.
UK videos that she creates. Andrea, 28, said she felt she fit in better with English culture and knew she would want to try living somewhere other than Southern California, where she grew up. "I really love that people don't take things so seriously and I always felt a lot of pressure to be the best in everything when I was in LA," Andrea, whose last name has been verified with Business Insider but left out for privacy, said.
As a teenager in California, Andrea was able to see what the UK could be like through the videos she watched created by what had been known as the "Brit Crew," which included YouTubers like Zoe Sugg and Alfie Deyes . "That was kind of my little way of being there but not being there," she said. But Andrea eventually got to see what the UK was like outside a screen when she visited at 18 years old.
She moved in 2015 to study at the University of Leicester, where she said she got a degree in applied psychology. She met her now-husband while at university, and she went back to California after graduating, given her student visa expired. After pandemic-era travel restrictions were lifted, she would visit her partner in Lond.