For the affluent, there's no need to hang around in the neighbourhood and risk encountering the neighbours, you can annoy them remotely by outsourcing the task to the technology. Just piss off somewhere expensive and leave a burglar alarm switched on.
A moaning burglar alarm is a highly efficient communication device. It tells you four things:
(i) this house is not occupied
(ii) we think there's something here worth stealing
(iii) we can't be bothered to connect with our neighbours and ask them to keep an eye on the place while we're away
(iv) we haven't got the intelligence to realise any of the above.
