I've been all over the country, and I can't recall any city with streets as bad as Milwaukee's. Perhaps Chicago, but it's been a few years since I ventured into that city instead of going around it.
There are very few streets here that don't have bumps and big cracks and potholes that rattle the doors off your car. My wife's car only has 45,000 miles on it, but it needs new shocks, struts, and at the minimum new bushings for control arms, etc. Last year she hit a hole and broke the belt on one of her front tires.
It's not surprising that the streets are this bad, since Milwaukee is the 5th poorest city in the country. Once you get to 124th street, where Waukesha county starts, the streets are smooth as glass.
Just curious how the streets in your town stack up.