I dunno - maybe the hamlet of Dahu, on the island of Hainan.
A friend's grandmother still lived up there, she couldn't stand the city. It was up in the mountains, so no nearby rice paddies, but it was a purely agricultural area. In the nearby town of Wupozhen, there was a betel nut warehouse? Processing plant?. So there were quite a few of the betel palms in the area, as well as latex rubber trees. It did have electricity though, but it hadn't been long. It didn't feel like a chithole though. Things were pretty well kept up, though looking at the home construction and the fields, it could have been 200 years ago.
Here in California, there's the scenic burg of Iowa Hill. It's maybe 5 miles or so as the crow flies off of Interstate 80. When I first checked it out, there was no telephone or electricity service. They have phone now, piggybacked off of a wifi signal they get from Foresthill, but still no power from the outside. It's either solar or generator..
