why are most suburban houses in the US built with wood, instead of bricks and mortar?
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Wood is cheap, plentiful, and easy to build with and transport. Very good strength/weight ratio compared to masonry.
A full masonry structure is enormously heavy and much more costly. Even most “brick” houses in the the US are “masonry facade” with a wooden frame.
You can get some cinderblock construction in hurricane bullseye zones along the gulf coast, other than that it’s almost entirely wood frame construction in the US.
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