Targeted ads, are you ever bored by them?

As many here know, I live in Albuquerque. Google knows that well. Somehow this permeates a lot of the sites I go to. What I want to know is, can I target my ad targeting? I suppose not, but would anyone else like that?

I'm so tired of seeing the pastel macaroons (bletch) available in my adopted home, and many other ABQ directed ads. I even suspect that all those smallprinted ads about dry eyes are because they know I have that in one eye. Or maybe that's coincidence. Maybe everyone is bombarded with those.

I'm not at the present time a potential buyer, but you never know, and in the meantime, I'd much rather see ads for travel guides to Tokyo or recent literature from South America or restaurants in Spain or crafted jewelry from, say, a back to school guy in canada that we know from a2k. I might even want to read about something available in Texas. There's a corgi rescue place there, I could look at the pictures.

Re ads I like, examples are in the New Yorker magazine. When my ship comes in, I might purchase from some of those small-space advertiser's wears.

I know that is pie in the sky as an idea. So, as a first step, is there anyway the marketed have a choice about the area they are marketed at?

I admit I understand the point of general area marketing. Still, even at that targeting, the variety is lame.


So, am I the only one feeling albuquerque'd? or Boise'd?