in the first three seasons, most events take place at either ridgewood high, the high school that liv, maddie, joey, and later parker, due to being a child prodigy, all attend, or the rooney residence. at the end of the third season, the rooney house collapses due to a series of tunnels created by parker and maddie is accepted into a college in los angeles, california. this prompts the rest of the rooneys, except pete who remains in wisconsin to continue his coaching job, to move to malibu, california, to take up residence with karen's younger sister dena and her daughter ruby, where the show's forth season takes place. in the last episode of the series, all the rooneys part ways. liv is invited to perform in a musical called "double duchess" on broadway, maddie is given a grant to build tiny houses for the homeless in new orleans, joey is invited to go on a comedy tour with jim breuer, and parker is invited to go with his friend val to a biodome in the salt flats of salar de uyuni, bolivia to study life on mars.