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[โ€“] eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I genuinely am interested. I assume this is for the US. Did houses get bulit with bricks in older days and why did they move away from it?

I live in europe an have only seen brick and cement Houses here

[โ€“] danielton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cheddar actually made a good video on this topic. The US switched to wood during the postwar boom because it was faster and cheaper to build houses and buildings out of wood, because wood is abundant here.