For $750 a day, you can rule a Hungarian hamlet


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Talk about a power trip.
For 210,000 forints (or $750) a day, the Hungarian village of Megyer will allow tourists or companies to take over the following: "Seven guesthouses that sleep 39 people, four streets, a bus stop, a barn, a chicken yard, six horses, two cows, three sheep, and four hectares of farmland - along with the possibility of temporarily being named deputy mayor," The Associated Press reports.
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The tiny hamlet, which calls just 18 people residents, is trying to drum up tourism — perhaps a tough sell when your main draw is "the silence of the remote countryside," according to the mayor you may be trying to overthrow, Kristof Pajer.
So come on out to Megyer, rename your four streets for the duration of your stay, and take to the "meadow with a bottle of rose wine," Pajer implores. Once you do that, "nothing else matters," he says.
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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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