>In much of central and northern Europe almost all construction is traditionally wood.

That is woke bs and you know it. If it ain't 100% roman concrete, it ain't right.

Im not sure what you mean by "woke bs" as it is evidentially factual. Most of central and northern Europe wasn't even a part of the roman empire...

I was joking.

that went way over my head :D

Only barbarians with beards use wood.

Drop a Google Streetview in the middle on downtown classical Gothenberg, and try to find a wood construction building. Sweden is about as northern Europe as it gets. Head over to Amsterdam, and it will look pretty similar.

It will be relatively similar to most other major European cities; solid masonry construction has historically been the norm.

You'll find some wooden houses in smaller towns and rural areas, but even there, if you head over to e.g. Poland, most things will be solid masonry. And the wooden construction is mostly relatively new; what you'll rarely find is old wooden construction.

You're clearly out of your depth here. Dropping into one city on Street View and thinking you understand an entire country's building traditions is laughable.

In Sweden, around 80% of standing homes are wooden. 90% of new single-family homes use wood. Gothenburg is the exception, not the rule, thanks to 19th-century zoning laws that limited wooden buildings to two storeys.

The Netherlands is Western Europe, not Northern or Central - basic geography.

Wood dominates residential construction in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Denmark is about 50/50. Poland uses more masonry today but has a strong wooden tradition in the south.

You're making sweeping claims about places you clearly haven't spent any real time in. Maybe do some proper research before pretending to be an expert.