In California we use wood because it flexes during earthquakes. There may be damage during a big one but at least the house is less likely to collapse on you.

If we did that in the US west coast, they would crack and fall apart from tectonic plate shift. You need to build things to be flexible for earthquakes and general shift.

That's because Europe has had many more centuries worth of deforestation. The greatest resource the Americas had to offer to Europe was essentially unlimited lumber.

In Florida houses are also built from cinder blocks because wood is too weak against hurricanes.

Edit: interiors can be built from wood, but all exterior walls are made with cinder blocks.

We have plenty of brick houses here too, but they all are still built around wooden frames for the most part

Wood is becoming popular for new constructions in France too.

With the new regulations you need to limit the amount of CO2 emitted for building and maintaining the house.

It's much easier to respect this regulation by using wood rather than concrete so we see more and more wooden constructions now.

That appears to be a military bunker of some sort

That is mainly specifically a UK problem. Most homes in Europe are pretty decently to excellently insulated.