Bad Homburg

Bad Homburg is a small city north of Frankfurt Germany (25 minutes on S5 from Frankfurt HBF). Before November I’d never even heard of it. Now, it seems like I’m there all the time (three visits and counting).

The city dates back to the late 1980s so there’s a very strong chance that its founder is still alive, which is really weird cause no one seems to know anything about him. I’ve asked around and there’s no consensus at all!

Was he bad like, “No. don’t hire that guy. He’s not very reliable”? Or is it a kind of “he’s dangerous” situation (but not like a terrible forklift operator is dangerous, more like how a gangster might be)? And then there’s the third, (ironic) option where “bad” actually means good. Like how the character of “Little” Bill Daggett in Unforgiven (1992) was played by Gene Hackman who is actually 6’8″ (or 203 cm).

The only thing we can definitively say about him is that he is (or was) English. If he were German, they would called his city Schlechtes Homburg. And that doesn’t sounds like a pleasant place to live and/or work.