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Brick isn't as common in the US. It's more "regional." I'm most towns, you'll have like one or two brick buildings and that's it. A town hall, maybe a church.
What are they built from then?
Wood and sheetrock
https://time.com/6046368/wood-steel-houses-fires/
despite lumber shortage and wildfires, tornados and wood eating insects
Lumber is cheap, concrete is expensive. If the US were to switch to concrete, construction would become substantially more expensive everywhere in the world.
It’s not like you can’t use concrete in the US even if you want to. Commercial architecture and public infrastructure use it all the time.
Wood mostly.
Bricks aren't uncommon for commercial buildings, though they're often painted or otherwise different colors.
Bare brick boxes are very indicative of long-gone industry, but it's not the bricks themselves that are truly to blame for giving that impression.