Ivad, a small village in the north east of Hungary is offering people – anyone – the opportunity to have a street named after them. If you are interested, the cost is 100,000 forints ($511) per metre. The eight streets of Ivad are up for grabs. And the village’s website says that the name will not be altered for 300 years.

“If, for example Barbra Streisand, whom I like a lot, has no street named after her, she may decide to have one in our village,” said Gabor Ivady, mayor of Ivad where most of the 400-strong population are related. There is one catch – the law in Hungary states that roads cannot be named after the living, so your street won’t be named after you until you are long gone and dead. Ah yes, and the website goes on to say, “The person must be or have been prominent in their sphere of life.”